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SHOOFLY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A child's rocking chair with the seat built between two flat sides that are shaped to resemble an animal (such as a swan or duck)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("shoofly" is a kind of...):
rocker; rocking chair (a chair mounted on rockers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An undercover police officer who investigates other policemen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("shoofly" is a kind of...):
officer; police officer; policeman (a member of a police force)
Domain usage:
colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)
