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trap noun1. [trap]
A device or enclosure, often baited, designed to catch and retain or kill game or vermin, either by allowing entry but not exit, or by catching hold of the body; a gin, a snare. OE.
C. Mungoshi His grandfather setting the traps with the stone and two sticks.
b. fig. A trick betraying a person into an unintended action or speech. ME.
M. L. King I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything he wrote.
c. transf. A person who catches offenders; a detective, a police officer. slang (now only Austral.). E18.
d. A device allowing a pigeon to enter but not leave a loft. L19.
e. An arrangement to catch an unsuspecting person; esp. a police device to detect a motorist exceeding the legal speed limit (also speed trap). E20.
C. Mackenzie Slow down a bit. There's a trap somewhere along here.
A covering over a pit or floor opening, designed to fall when stepped on; a trapdoor. ME.
b. The mouth. Chiefly in keep one's trap shut, shut your trap! below. slang. L18.
c. A concealed compartment; spec. a hiding place for stolen or illegal goods. US slang. M20.
a. A shoe-shaped wooden device with a pivoted bar used in the game of trap-ball. Also = TRAP-BALL 1. L16.
b. A device for suddenly releasing and hurling an object, esp. a clay pigeon, into the air to be shot at. E19.
c. A compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race. E20.
Deceit; trickery; fraud. slang. L17.
Chiefly Hist. A light usu. two-wheeled spring carriage. colloq. L18.
a. A device in a waste pipe for preventing the upward escape of noxious gases etc., as a double curve or U-shaped section in which water stands. M19.
b. Any of various devices for preventing the passage of steam, water, silt, etc. Also, a ventilation door in a mine. L19.
c. Geology. An underground rock formation in which an accumulation of oil or gas is trapped. Also gas trap, oil trap. E20.
d. Radio. A resonant circuit used as a rejector or acceptor circuit to block or divert signals of a specific frequency, esp. to reduce interference in a receiver tuned to a nearby frequency. Also wave trap. E20.
a. A recess for carrying accessories in the butt of a rifle etc. M19.
b. = trap-net below. US. L19.
c. Golf. A bunker. Chiefly N. Amer. L19.
(A fault resulting from) a break in the warp threads of a piece of weaving. L19.
Physics. A site in a crystal lattice which is capable of temporarily immobilizing a moving electron or hole. M20.
Amer. Football. A tactic in which an attacking team allows a defending player to cross the line of scrimmage and blocks him from the side, enabling the player with the ball to go unopposed through the gap created. Also more fully trap-play. M20.
Phrases: be up to trap be knowing or cunning. DEATH-trap. keep one's trap shut slang remain silent. leg trap: see LEG noun. RAT-TRAP. shut your trap! slang be quiet! speed trap: see sense 1e above. tourist trap: see TOURIST noun. trap and ball = TRAP-BALL 1. vampire trap: see VAMPIRE noun 4.
Comb.: trap-bat (a) a bat used in trap-ball; (b) the game of trap-ball; trap boat N. Amer. a fishing boat using trap-nets; trap cage: fitted with a spring device to catch and retain a bird etc. inside; trap-cellar the space beneath the trapdoors in a theatre stage; trap-crop a crop planted to attract insect pests etc. from another crop, esp. one in which the pests fail to survive or reproduce; trapfall a trapdoor or covering over a pit etc. designed to give way beneath the feet; trap-gun (a) a gun set with an automatic trip device; (b) a gun used in trap-shooting; trap-hatch: covered with a trap or trapdoor; trap-hook a snap-hook; trap-house a shelter from which clay pigeons are released in trap-shooting; trap-light: fitted with a device for trapping moths etc.; trap-line (a) the ensnaring filament in a spider's web; (b) N. Amer. a series of game traps; trap-match a trap-shooting match; trap-nest noun & verb (a) noun a nesting-box allowing a hen to enter but not leave until released; (b) verb trans. enclose (a hen) in a trap-nest; trap-net a large fishing net with a funnel-shaped neck; trap-play: see sense 10 above; trap-point a safety-point preventing unauthorized movement of a train etc. from a siding on to the main line; trapshoot N. Amer. a sporting contest or event involving shooting clay pigeons etc.; trap-shooter a person who shoots clay pigeons etc. as a sport; trap-shooting the sport of shooting clay pigeons etc. released from a spring trap; trap-shot = trap-shooter above; trap-shy adjective (of an animal) reluctant to approach a trap; trap-siding: intended to intercept and derail breakaway train carriages; trapskiff N. Amer., rare = trap boat above; trapstick a stick used in trap-ball; trap-tree a tree deadened or felled in order to localize insect infestation; trap-yard an enclosure into which horses, sheep, etc., are driven and confined.
trappy adjective (colloq.) inclined to act as a trap or snare; containing a trap or traps: L19.
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