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fly-tipper

fly-tipper noun: one who engages in fly-tipping.

Noun

fly-tipper (plural fly-tippers)

  1. One who engages in fly-tipping.
    • A fly-tipper committed a serious error when he dumped a large quantity of waste alongside the track at Burnley earlier this year - his home address was discovered on paperwork found among the piles of rubbish.2021 August 25, “Network News: Fly-tipper left key evidence”, in RAIL, number 938, page 18
    • What can be done about fly-tipping? It’s one of the great scourges of the modern countryside – and it’s getting worse. Fly-tipping – the illegal dumping of rubbish on public land, farmland, laybys and country lanes – has soared to an all-time high in England, according to new statistics released by...2026 June, “Fly-tipping is destroying our countryside – here’s how to stop this disgraceful trend”, in BBC Countryfile Magazine

Forms of fly-tipper

pluralfly-tippers
alternative formflytipper

Questions about fly-tipper

What does fly-tipper mean?
Fly-tipper means one who engages in fly-tipping.
What part of speech is fly-tipper?
Fly-tipper is a noun.
What is the plural of fly-tipper?
The plural of fly-tipper is fly-tippers.

Words near fly-tipper in the dictionary

  1. fly-swatters
  2. fly-through
  3. fly-throughs
  4. fly-tip
  5. fly-tipped
  6. fly-tipper
  7. fly-tippers
  8. fly-tipping
  9. fly-tips
  10. fly-trap
  11. fly-traps

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