English
Etymology
From clamp + -like.
Adjective
clamplike (comparative more clamplike, superlative most clamplike)
- 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.