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means A small hand tool with hinged jaws or teeth designed to slide under a staple and pry it out of paper without tearing the sheets.

from A straightforward compound word: 'staple,' from Old English/Germanic roots meaning a fixed loop or pin (the same word family that gives us the 'staple' in 'staple goods,' meaning a fixed, essential item), fused with 'remover,' an agent noun from 'remove,' tracing back to Latin removere — 're-' (back, away) plus 'movere' (to move). The office staple itself is a 19th and 20th-century invention, born alongside the rise of paper-fastening needs in modern offices; the remover followed as its natural, slightly violent antidote — no ancient myth here, just practical naming for a practical un-fastening tool.