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Definition of Flyswatter
1. Noun. An implement with a flat part (of mesh or plastic) and a long handle; used to kill insects.
Definition of Flyswatter
1. Noun. A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flyswatter
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flyswatter
Literary usage of Flyswatter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Teaching Young Children Ages 1-6 by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Jill Norris, Marilyn Evans, Cindy Davis (2002)
"A simple flyswatter becomes a friendly character. flyswatter felt or paper ...
Glue felt or paper eyes, nose, mouth, and other features to the flyswatter. ..."
2. Space Flight: The First Thirty Years (1993)
"Hoffman and Griggs took an unscheduled space-walk to attach an improvised "flyswatter"
device to the Remote Manipulator System arm, in the hope that it ..."
3. Plains Indians by M. Robbins (1996)
"... fire carrier, knives, game counters, scraper Hair and Tail padding/stuffing,
paintbrush, whips, flyswatter Hide and Sinew tipi covers, robes, clothes, ..."
4. Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq by Shane A. Bernskoetter (2005)
"The flyswatter we keep up there had about 100 kills added to its total today.
(21 NOV 2004) Last night the 10th Mountain guys patrolling around here were ..."
5. Building Fluency by Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Compilation, Gerald Tindal, Melanie Coon, Joy Evans, Marilyn Evans (2006)
"Mr. Green: Here, let me get that darn fly... Betty: No! Mr. Green, really!
Leave it alone! Mr. Green: It's okay. I have a big flyswatter right here. ..."
6. Citizen's Guide to Pest Control And Pesticide Safety by DIANE Publishing Company (1996)
"Using a flyswatter. • Setting traps to control rats, mice, and some insects.
• Mulching to reduce weed growth. One or a combination of several non-chemical ..."
7. The Abba Transition by Christopher Waters (2006)
"One moment she might be perfectly calm and the next, scream at me about something
I did not understand, and chase me with a flyswatter spanking my legs. ..."
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