shoofly
noun
a child's rocker having a seat supported between two boards cut and painted to resemble animals.
shooflies
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pluralof shoofly.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Anticorruption campaigns within departments are so extensive that one P.B.A. has taken to posting pictures and license plates of "shooflies," as internal investigative officers are called.
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