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Noun
catch-'em-alive-O (plural catch-'em-alive-Os)
- (slang, obsolete) A live-trap (trap designed to catch animals without killing them).
- 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.