Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- adj. Designed to resist tampering by young children: a childproof aspirin bottle.
- adj. Made safe for young children, as by the removal or alteration of potential hazards: a childproof kitchen.
- transitive v. To make childproof: childproof a house.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- adj. Designed to be unable for a child to use, operate, or open.
- adj. Made safe for children.
- adj. Made safe from children; resistant to damage by children.
- v. To make something childproof.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. make safe against children
Etymologies
Examples
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At Oakland's Harborside Health Center, pot is sold not by dealers but from a clean, white building where doors open by fingerprint scans, cameras monitor every corner, and pot brownies come in "childproof" wrappers.
Form of medical marijuana won't get you high, but it's creating a buzz
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Firehouses are generally not safe "childproof" environments.
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We hope the proposals to make vending machines 'childproof' will be rigidly enforced and that if they don't work, then this issue will be revisited by ministers, "the group said.
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"The caps to medicine bottles are child-resistant, not childproof," warns Dr. Muller.
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After a brief fight with the childproof cap, I tapped two red and yellow capsules out into my palm and dry-swallowed them.
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They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
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"As parents and grandparents, we do everything we need to do to childproof; now we need teen-proof by getting medicine out of the medicine cabinet," said Leonhart.
Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose Spawns DEA's National 'Take-Back' Day
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Obama and Biden would repeal the Tiahrt Amendmentment ... they support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
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Johnson Creek Enterprises LLC, a Wisconsin firm that makes its own "smoke juice," says it lists all the ingredients on its packaging and uses childproof caps.
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Is there a childproof storage area for cleaning materials?
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