beetle-sticker

noun

An entomologist.

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Meanings

nounbeetle-sticker (plural beetle-stickers)

plural beetle-stickers

  1. datedslangAn entomologist.

    Entomologists all over England are in despair at the total failure of the insect crop, and have taken to botanising, angling, and other bad habits, in default of means for pursuing their natural avocation as beetle-stickers.

    1884, Grant Allen, The Evolutionist at Large, page 105
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