Plural of flypaper; multiple strips of sticky adhesive paper used for trapping flying insects.
Regular plural of 'flypaper,' formed by adding '-s.' The term has been in use since the commercial availability of flypaper in the late 19th century.
In kitchens before modern sanitation, multiple flypapers might be hung simultaneously—a gross but effective system that literally showed the fly problem worsening as the papers filled up! Victorian-era households would boast about having fewer trapped flies as a measure of domestic excellence.
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