Just for personal reasons I would like to know what to call the disposable paper wrappers for drinking straws. If there is no name can I name it a paper? Paper wrapper?
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Best Answer
As far as I can tell, there is no special term, in industry or otherwise, for the protective covering of an individually wrapped drinking straw.
It could be called a sleeve, in Macmillan's second sense, especially if made of paper:
I think most people, however, would simply refer to it as the wrapper or (wrapping).
No one I know would refer to it as a paper, but I would expect people who are familiar with such straws to understand if you referred to the material— I peeled the paper from the straw or I removed the straw from its shrink wrap.