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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

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Forms of fly paper

pluralfly papers

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 orchids
  2. fly out
  3. fly out of the blocks
  4. fly out of the traps
  5. fly outs
  6. fly paper
  7. fly papers
  8. fly pie
  9. fly pies
  10. fly powder
  11. fly powders

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