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FOOTPAD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does footpad mean? 

FOOTPAD (noun)
  The noun FOOTPAD has 1 sense:

1. a highwayman who robs on footplay

  Familiarity information: FOOTPAD used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FOOTPAD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A highwayman who robs on foot

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

footpad; padder

Hypernyms ("footpad" is a kind of...):

highjacker; highwayman; hijacker; road agent (a holdup man who stops a vehicle and steals from it)


 Context examples 


A laboratory specimen consisting of the foot and footpad.

(Foot/Footpad, NCI Thesaurus)

To better understand the mechanisms involved, the researchers analyzed levels of interleukin-1β (IL-1β), which has previously been linked to inflammatory bone disease, in the animals’ footpads.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)

It had five well-marked footpads, an indication of long nails, and the whole print might be nearly as large as a dessert-spoon.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

IL-1β protein concentrations were significantly increased in the footpads of regular-fed mutant mice, whereas levels in those fed a high-fat diet were comparable to healthy controls.

(Diet Affects Autoinflammatory Disease Via Gut Microbes, NIH)



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