fortlike

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Etymology

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fort +‎ -like

Adjective

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fortlike (comparative more fortlike, superlative most fortlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a fort.
    • 2008 June 5, Ginia Bellafante, “Horror Show’s Life Lessons ...Er, Maybe Death Lessons”, in New York Times[1]:
      You know things are not going to work out well for a petty criminal when, stranded in a fortlike compound occupied by three young women who look like American Girl versions of 19th-century psychiatric nurses and talk like the weird sisters in “Macbeth,” he innocently inquires about Internet access.