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noun
An appliance for the destruction of insects, consisting of a shallow box containing kerosene or coated with a sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From hopper, as in grasshopper, doze or dose (because conceived as putting insects to sleep or as dosing them with poison), + -er.
