Usually means: Paper used to ignite fireworks.
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  1. touchpaper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. touchpaper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. touchpaper: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Touchpaper, touchpaper: Wordnik
  5. touchpaper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. touchpaper: Wiktionary
  7. Touchpaper (Claire Hamill album), Touchpaper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. touchpaper: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Touchpaper: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  Alternative spelling of touch-paper [a strip of paper impregnated with nitre, used as a fuse for firing gunpowder, fireworks etc.]

Similar:
gunpaper, gun paper, touch-hole, touchhole, fly-paper, scratchpaper, fly paper, quickmatch, touchpanel, touch-phone, more...

Phrases:
light the blue touchpaper, more...

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Similar:
gunpaper, gun paper, touch-hole, touchhole, fly-paper, scratchpaper, fly paper, quickmatch, touchpanel, touch-phone, more...

Phrases:
light the blue touchpaper, more...



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