fly-swatter

plural fly-swatters

1. alternativeAlternative form of flyswatter.

   Although not much of the merchandise may tempt you (meat smokers, underwear and fly-swatters are on offer), it’s nice to stroll through a busy shopping area without getting the “Hey, amigo!” sales push.

   2005 November, Zora O’Neill, John Fisher, “Cancún, Isla Mujeres and Isla Holbox”, in The Rough Guide to The Yucatán, New York, N.Y.: Rough Guides, →ISBN, page 89

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   Two mechanical toys in particular are noticeable in this respect, the old man who aimed with a fly-swatter, patiently awaits the coming of mus musculus, and the twin cats with ribbons round their necks which jig joyously to each other’s fiddling on a glass-encased stage.

   1900 December 14, H. M. Ayres, “Christmas Joys Are Almost Here: Wonderful Sights in the Store Windows”, in The Pacific Commercial Advertiser, volume XXXII, number 5728, Honolulu, Hawaii Territory, page [7], column 2

   I had a tournament coming up, and Waialae is a damn difficult course, probably the second or third hardest on the PGA tour, mainly because of its wasp-waisted fairways as narrow as seventeen yards in places and those towering coconut trees that are to golf balls what fly-swatters are to, uh, flies.

   2010 March, Don Dahler, chapter 2, in Water Hazard, New York, N.Y.: Minotaur Books, →ISBN, page 10