Meaning of catch-'em-alive-O | Babel Free

Definitions

A live-trap (trap designed to catch animals without killing them).

obsolete, slang

Examples

“1855-1857, Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit There were views, like and unlike, of a multitude of places; and there was one little picture-room devoted to a few of the regular sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue a Catch-em-alive O.”

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