fly paper

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Noun

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fly paper (countable and uncountable, plural fly papers)

  1. Alternative form of flypaper
    • 2012, Shelley LeRoux, The Secret Ingredient:
      They had even hung fly paper but the flies did not go near it!
    • 2014, Dave Goulson, A Buzz in the Meadow, page 58:
      My wife Lara and I try to keep the doors and windows shut, and from the beams we hang dozens of fly papers, which quickly become covered in a revolting mass of struggling, sticky flies.
    • 2014, Dionna Ford, Mandy O'Brien, Homemade Cleaners:
      Create your own homemade fly paper and hang near doorways or other areas where flies congregate.