flypaper

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A strip of paper coated with a sticky, often poisonous, substance that catches and kills flies that land on it.

   “"What did I tell you? The thing clings like a flypaper," Josella observed to me.”

verb

1. To cause something to become stuck with, or as if with, flypaper.

   “He gets flypapered by a task that should be turned over to a subordinate.”

   “Cover painting that flypapered the eyes were very important to G-8 sales, and Frederick Blakeslee's mixing of fantasy with the realistic texture of machines had a hypnotic effect on impressionable coin-holders.”

   “In 'The Vertical Ladder," a hapless adolescent is flypapered fast in perpetuity, a mean little speck, on the mast of implacability.”

   “Hysterical parties on her dorm floor concussed the hallways with music and produced a semi-permanent layer of trodden chips flypapered onto the carpet by spilled beer.”