fly-paper

plural fly-papers

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of flypaper.

   We get rid of flies with fly-spray and by hanging up fly-paper.

   2012, Roald Dahl, Roald Dahl: Three Tales of Magic and Mischief, page 306

   2 more examples

   : Mrs. Maybrick purchased these fly-papers from two chemists' shops, where she was well known.

   1896, The Maybrick Case, a Statement of the Case as a Whole

   Fly-paper has accomplished nothing. The percentage of flies that get hitched to it is but one in the hundred, and the other ninety-nine assemble as at a circus and enjoy the.performance.

   2001, Mark Twain, “The Supremacy of the House Fly”, in Microfilm Edition of Mark Tawin's Literary Manuscripts Available in the Mark Twain Pages, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley

present singular third person fly-papers · participle present fly-papering · participle past fly-papered · past fly-papered

1. alternativeAlternative form of flypaper.

   Be firm, Woody, don't get fly-papered into staying on here.

   1976, Stephen Longstreet, God and Sarah Pedlock, page 356

   2 more examples

   For people who fear getting fly-papered by a first job, the Tremayne case makes it clear that the first job can be a stepping-stone to bigger and better things.

   1983, Auren Uris, John J. Tarrant, Career stages: surmounting the crises of working life, page 47

   Once Pleurobrachia senses it has 'fly-papered' a copepod onto a tentacle, it spins its body to rapidly wrap its tentacles around the body, somehow wiping the copepod across the single body opening to the central gut.

   2009, Iain M. Suthers, David Rissik, Plankton