Definition of "shoofly" []

• A child's rocker having the seat built between two flat sides cut in the shape of an animal. (noun)
• Slang An undercover police officer who checks on the honesty and performance of other police officers. (noun)

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• "Defending his actions, Logay claims that Medell was a CIA "shoofly" for Fuller and not qualified to run agent nets."
• "Gingerbread was one of those things, so your shoofly sounds good."
• "This sounds so good, I've only had shoofly pie once, but I did really enjoy it."