FLYPAPER

flypaper

(noun) paper that is poisoned or coated with a sticky substance to kill flies

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

flypaper (countable and uncountable, plural flypapers)

A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it

Synonyms

• fly ribbon

Verb

flypaper (third-person singular simple present flypapers, present participle flypapering, simple past and past participle flypapered)

To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.

Source: Wiktionary



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POPULATED

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