Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Designed to resist tampering by young children.
- adjective Made safe for young children, as by the removal or alteration of potential hazards.
- transitive verb To make childproof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Designed to be
unable for achild touse ,operate , oropen . - adjective Made
safe forchildren . - adjective Made safe from children;
resistant todamage by children. - verb To make something childproof.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make safe against children
Etymologies
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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 2010
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Firehouses are generally not safe "childproof" environments.
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Firehouses are generally not safe "childproof" environments.
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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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After a brief fight with the childproof cap, I tapped two red and yellow capsules out into my palm and dry-swallowed them.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
Inauguration Day Discussion Topic: The Change You Need? 2009
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They support closing the gun show loophole and making guns in this country childproof.
Inauguration Day Discussion Topic: The Change You Need? 2009
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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.
Crossed J.F. Lewis 2011
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"The caps to medicine bottles are child-resistant, not childproof," warns Dr. Muller.
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