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Flit, n.2|flɪt|
[f. the vb.]
The proprietary name of an insecticide. Flit gun, a syringe intended for use in spraying insecticides.
1923Official Gaz. U.S. Pat. Office 27 Nov. 723/1 Standard Oil Company (New Jersey)..Flit. Insecticide. Claims use since May 17, 1923. 1926Trade Marks Jrnl. 17 Mar. 628 Flit, chemical substances used for Agricultural, Horticultural, Veterinary and Sanitary purposes. Standard Oil Company..New Jersey. Ibid. 10 Nov. 2513 Flit, Sprayers, Squirt-guns and Atomizers..Standard Oil Company..New Jersey. 1927Blackw. Mag. Sept. 310/2 She had had the foresight to buy a metal spray and a tin of insecticide called Flit. With Flit we had come scatheless through Persia. Ibid., Even our Flit gun ceased to interest him. 1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xvi. 186 You ought to spray him with flit. 1948C. Day Lewis Otterbury Incident iv. 43 They had a pail of muddy water..and one of those Flit guns loaded with it. 1958Times 7 Aug. 3/4 They only had a Flit-gun, the sort of thing we used in India to keep the mosquitoes off. |