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flypapers

flypapers is the plural of flypaper.

flypapers is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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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Questions about flypapers

What is flypapers the plural of?
Flypapers is the plural of flypaper.

Words near flypapers in the dictionary

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

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