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The brief, holy gap between owning a thing and being disappointed by it.
means To remove the paper, plastic, or packaging covering something, or in coding, to extract a value from a container.
from From Middle English wrappen, to fold or wind, with the negating un- prefix; literally to undo a winding, a word that survived centuries to describe both birthday joy and rage at clamshell packaging.
Coding termMeans extracting a value from inside another.
Christmas economicsWrapping paper is engineered to be destroyed instantly.
Reverse siblingUnbox added a camera and went viral.