trap.
A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
Meaning & usage
A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
trap street
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids. A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. The game of trapball itself.
A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
trap phone
trap car
An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.
A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
a horse and trap
A person's mouth.
Keep your trap shut.
Synonym of vagina.
A policeman.
Belongings.
A cubicle (in a public toilet).
I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
Trapshooting.
A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”). Cognate with Dutch trap (“step, stair”), German Low German Trapp (“step, stair”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.
To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
to trap foxes
To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
She was trapped into admitting the truth.
To provide with a trap.
to trap a drain
to trap a sewer pipe
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
trap for beaver
They trapped north along the river.
To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
To leave suddenly, to flee.
To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-West Germanic *trappjā (“trap, snare”), from Proto-West Germanic *trappjan (“to step”), from Proto-Germanic *trapjaną (“to tread, stamp”), from Proto-Indo-European *drebʰ- (“to step, trip, trample”). Cognate with Dutch trap (“step, stair”), German Low German Trapp (“step, stair”). Akin also to West Frisian traap (“stepping, treading, stairway”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English træppan (“to step, tread”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.
A dark coloured igneous rock; (now usually) any nongranitic igneous rock.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Swedish trapp (“step, stair, stairway”), from Middle Low German trappe (“stair, step”).
To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
She was all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.
Where this word comes from
Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).
The trapezius muscle.
Where this word comes from
Clipping of trapezius.
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