safety match

1. 1.

   a paper match that strikes only on a specially prepared surface

   Synonymsbook matches

   Broadermatch

Questions about safety match

What does safety match mean?

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

What is another word for safety match?

Close synonyms include book matches. 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 safety match a common word?

safety match 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.