Wiktionary
alt. (context British English) A plastic film (originally polyvinylidene chloride but now polyethylene) that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped; used to cover and preserve foodstuffs etc. n. (context British English) A plastic film (originally polyvinylidene chloride but now polyethylene) that is so thin that it clings to any object about which it is wrapped; used to cover and preserve foodstuffs etc.
WordNet
n. a thin plastic film made of saran (trade name Saran Wrap) that sticks to itself; used for wrapping food [syn: clingfilm, Saran Wrap]
Usage examples of "cling film".
Over brunch the women merely jabbed at their food, nibbling at corners and tearing off small strips so that I was left with a great deal of it, which I took away, wrapped in cling film and left on the work surfaces and in the fridge in the kitchen.
Nettie lowered her bag onto a table in the visitors' lounge and pulled out sandwiches wrapped in cling film and a Tupperware container filled with potato salad.
By the time the sandwiches had been liberated from the cling film even the few who had come to heckle had been tamed to silence.
And to press the magic button, says the Blue Peter bloke, or is he off that childrens art programme where they do things with rubber bands and cling film and tubes of adhesive, or was that a video with German subtitles?
There was the usual orderly clutter of supplies, the canvases leant against the wall, the metal cabinet whose shallow drawers held sketches and water-colours, the refrigerator where my mother kept her working palettes under cling film, the cleaned brushes in their jars –.