beetle-sticker

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Noun[edit]

beetle-sticker (plural beetle-stickers)

  1. (slang, dated) An entomologist.
    • 1884, Grant Allen, The Evolutionist at Large, page 105:
      Entomologists all over England are in despair at the total failure of the insect crop, and have taken to botanising, angling, and other bad habits, in default of means for pursuing their natural avocation as beetle-stickers.

References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
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