Definition of "childproof" [childproof]

• Designed to resist tampering by young children: a childproof aspirin bottle. (adjective)
• Made safe for young children, as by the removal or alteration of potential hazards: a childproof kitchen. (adjective)
• To make childproof: childproof a house. (verb-transitive)

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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."
• "Firehouses are generally not safe "childproof" environments."
• "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."