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flypapered

flypapered is the simple past and past participle of flypaper.

Meaning of flypaper

Verb

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

  1. To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.
    • He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.1967, Auren Uris, Keeping young in business, page 134

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Adjective

flypapered (not comparable)

  1. Filled with flypaper.

Origin of flypapered

From flypaper + -ed.

Questions about flypapered

What does flypapered mean?
Flypapered means filled with flypaper.
What is flypapered the simple past and past participle of?
Flypapered is the simple past and past participle of flypaper.
What part of speech is flypapered?
Flypapered is an adjective.

Words near flypapered in the dictionary

  1. flyover state
  2. flyover states
  3. flyovers
  4. flypaper
  5. flypaper theory
  6. flypapered
  7. flypapering
  8. flypapers
  9. flypast
  10. flypasts
  11. flype

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flypapered (page history and authors); flypaper (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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