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clamplike

clamplike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a clamp.

Adjective

clamplike (comparative more clamplike, superlative most clamplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a clamp.
    • There are battery-powered traps that electrocute them and the classic spring-activated wire traps and similar clamplike plastic traps.2008 May 9, Steve Bailey, “Your House, Their Nest”, in New York Times

Forms of clamplike

comparativemore clamplike
superlativemost clamplike

Origin of clamplike

From clamp + -like.

Questions about clamplike

What does clamplike mean?
Clamplike means resembling or characteristic of a clamp.
What part of speech is clamplike?
Clamplike is an adjective.

Words near clamplike in the dictionary

  1. clamping off
  2. clampings
  3. Clampitt
  4. Clampitts
  5. clampless
  6. clamplike
  7. clamps
  8. clamps down on
  9. clamps off
  10. clampy
  11. clams

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