English edit

Etymology edit

clamp +‎ -like

Adjective edit

clamplike (comparative more clamplike, superlative most clamplike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a clamp.
    • 2008 May 9, Steve Bailey, “Your House, Their Nest”, in New York Times[1]:
      There are battery-powered traps that electrocute them and the classic spring-activated wire traps and similar clamplike plastic traps.