book matches

1. 1.

   a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface

   Synonymssafety match

   Broadermatch

Questions about book matches

What does book matches mean?

book matches means "a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface".

What is another word for book matches?

Close synonyms include safety match. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is book matches a common word?

book matches is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.