noun

• (uncountable) Ellipsis of wallpaper.
  "The paperhangers had just finished hanging the paper in the dining room when the interior decorator walked in and exclaimed that it was the wrong color."
• (uncountable) Ellipsis of wrapping paper.
  "In those days, you asked the butcher for a block of cheese, and he wrapped it up in paper for you."
• (rock paper scissors) An open hand (a handshape resembling a sheet of paper), that beats rock and loses to scissors. It loses to lizard and beats Spock in rock-paper-scissors-lizard-Spock.
• (British, Hong Kong) A set of examination questions to be answered at one session.

verb

• (transitive) To apply paper to.
  "to paper the hallway walls"
• (transitive) To document; to memorialize.
  "After they reached an agreement, their staffs papered it up."
• (transitive) To fill (a theatre or other paid event) with complimentary seats.
  "Later, seat-filling or “papering” services cropped up, with organizations like Audience Extras, Play-by-Play, […]"
• (transitive) To submit official papers to (a law court, etc.).
  "As powerhouse lawyers shuttled to Cuba to meet clients and papered the federal courts with habeas corpus petitions, Guantanamo's isolation and lack of publicity, once the military's most powerful psychological weapon, was eliminated."