fly trap

[flahy-trap]

fly·trap

[flahy-trap]
noun
1.
any of various plants that entrap insects, especially Venus's-flytrap.
2.
a trap for flies.

Origin:
1765–75; fly2 + trap1
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Fly trap is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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fly trap definition


  1. n.
    the mouth. : Close your fly trap. You talk too much.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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