flypaper
noun
fly·pa·per
ˈflī-ˌpā-pər 
: paper coated with a sticky often poisonous substance for killing flies
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This is the flypaper on which students are often caught.
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
That family in the $20 million carriage house had been there for generations, having inherited their wealth from forebears who made their fortune in pest control, leaving flypaper impregnated with arsenic around for Freya to store and use for her own purposes.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
In 1923, according to the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper and other accounts, one patient got into a disagreement with a younger guard who taunted him and covered his mouth with sticky flypaper.
—Donna M. Owens, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
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Charlie Fink, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
That family in the $20 million carriage house had been there for generations, having inherited their wealth from forebears who made their fortune in pest control, leaving flypaper impregnated with arsenic around for Freya to store and use for her own purposes.
—Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 4 Apr. 2025
One defense, beginning in the late eighteen-hundreds, was flypaper, sheets of which were coated on one side with an oleaginous substance that lured flies, then permanently trapped them.
—David Owen, The New Yorker, 27 July 2024
In 1923, according to the Baltimore Afro-American newspaper and other accounts, one patient got into a disagreement with a younger guard who taunted him and covered his mouth with sticky flypaper.
—Donna M. Owens, NBC News, 24 Jan. 2024
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“Flypaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/flypaper. Accessed 7 Jul. 2025.
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flypaper
noun
fly·pa·per
-ˌpā-pər
: paper coated with a sticky often poisonous substance for killing flies
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