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fly-paper

fly-paper is the alternative form of flypaper.

Meaning of flypaper

Noun

flypaper (countable and uncountable, plural flypapers)

  1. A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.
    • "What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 105
    Synonyms:
    fly ribbon

See all 2 meanings of flypaper

Forms of fly-paper

Noun
pluralfly-papers
Verb
third-person singular presentfly-papers
present participlefly-papering
past participlefly-papered
pastfly-papered

Questions about fly-paper

What is fly-paper the alternative form of?
Fly-paper is the alternative form of flypaper.

Words near fly-paper in the dictionary

  1. fly-in
  2. fly-in fly-out
  3. fly-ins
  4. fly-over
  5. fly-overs
  6. fly-paper
  7. fly-papered
  8. fly-papering
  9. fly-papers
  10. fly-past
  11. fly-pasts

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