Usually means: Extremely thin, almost transparent material.
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  1. paper-thin: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. paper-thin: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. paper-thin: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. paper-thin, paper-thin: Collins English Dictionary
  5. paper-thin: Wordnik
  6. paper-thin: Wiktionary
  7. paper-thin: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. paper-thin: Dictionary.com
  9. paper-thin: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. paper-thin: Dictionary/thesaurus

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (literally) Very thin, such as the quality of paper.
adjective:  (figuratively) Insubstantial.

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