flypaper

About 0.05 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.
2. verb To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.

Similar words

fly paper fly-paper paper flier paper flyer glueboard fly sheet flyer flysheet filterpaper sticky

Often followed by

effect of and theory to in for hanging that

Word family

flypapers