flypaper
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- noun
- /ˈflaɪˌpeɪpər/
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papel atrapamoscas
- One Sunday, Amedee walked to Conchette's bar and grocery for a pastis and a hand of cards, and to purchase a spool of flypaper for Rose's kitchen.
Examples
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Looks like I'd better go check my flypaper, see what's sticking'.
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The water is nutrient poor and there are flypaper traps catching flies out there to get their protein.
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So imagine something like flypaper only on a stick.
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Or maybe you meant to do that as a kind of flypaper strategy for people like me?
Blog text (21) -
I hear the flies buzzing on the porch and the whining of ones stuck in the flypaper.
Fiction book (1992) -
There was a postage stamp-sized kitchen with a rickety table and chairs and flypaper hanging from the ceiling.
Blog text (14) -
The kitchen had several strips of flypaper hanging, each covered in dead flies.
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After setting up the flypaper, we quickly noticed how effective it was at trapping insects.
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To keep the house free from pests, we put up flypaper in the corners of the kitchen.
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Etymology
Flypaper is a simple combination of fly and paper, which means 'paper for flies'. It was named for the sticky paper people hang to catch and kill flies, so the name directly describes its use.