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trapsticks

trapsticks is the plural of trapstick.

Meaning of trapstick

Noun

trapstick (plural trapsticks)

  1. A stick used in playing the game of trapball.
  2. (dated, figuratively) A slender leg.
    • These had made a foolish swop between a couple of thick bandy legs and two long trapsticks that had no calves to them1714 July 5 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison], “THURSDAY, June 25, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 559; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI...

Questions about trapsticks

What is trapsticks the plural of?
Trapsticks is the plural of trapstick.

Words near trapsticks in the dictionary

  1. trapshooting
  2. trapshoots
  3. trapsing
  4. trapsings
  5. trapstick
  6. trapsticks
  7. trapt
  8. traptamer
  9. traptamers
  10. trapunto
  11. trapuntos

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