- nountrap (noun) · traps (plural noun)
- a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body:"the squirrels ravaged the saplings, despite the baited traps" · "a bear trap"
- the compartment from which a greyhound is released at the start of a race.
- a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack:"we were fed false information by a double agent and walked straight into a trap"
- a trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions:"by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap"
- an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape:"they fell into the trap of relying too little on equity financing"
- a container or device used to collect a specified thing:"one fuel filter and water trap are sufficient on the fuel system"
- a curve in the waste pipe from a bathtub, sink, or toilet that is always full of liquid and prevents gases from coming up the pipe into the building.
- a bunker or other hollow on a golf course.
- a light, two-wheeled carriage pulled by a horse or pony.
- a device for hurling an object such as a clay pigeon into the air to be shot at.
- historical(in the game of trapball) the shoe-shaped device that is hit with a bat to send the ball into the air.
- short for trapdoor
- informala person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking):"keep your trap shut!"
- informal(traps)(among jazz musicians) drums or percussion instruments:"I played the traps a little myself once"
- a type of hip-hop music typically characterized by a dark tone and rhythms involving low-pitched kick drums and a very fast hi-hat:"the LP will feature his raps over a wide range of electronic sounds from dubstep to trap"
- US ENGLISHinformala place where drugs are sold:"a trap full of dealers"
- baseballamerican footballan act of trapping the ball.
verbtrap (verb) · traps (third person present) · trapped (past tense) · trapped (past participle) · trapping (present participle)- catch (an animal) in a trap.
- prevent (someone) from escaping from a place:"twenty workers were trapped by flames"
- have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot move or be freed:"he had trapped his finger in a spring-loaded hinge"
- induce (someone), by means of trickery or deception, to do something they would not otherwise want to do:"I hoped to trap him into an admission"
- baseballamerican footballcatch (the ball) after it has briefly touched the ground.
- soccerbring (the ball) under control with the feet or other part of the body on receiving it.
OriginOld English træppe (in coltetræppe ‘Christ's thorn’); related to Middle Dutch trappe and medieval Latin trappa, of uncertain origin. The verb dates from late Middle English.verbarchaictrap (verb) · traps (third person present) · trapped (past tense) · trapped (past participle) · trapping (present participle)- put trappings on (a horse):"the horses were trapped with black velvet" · "gaily trapped mules"
Originlate Middle English: from the obsolete noun trap ‘trappings’, from Old French drap ‘drape’.nounNORTH AMERICAN ENGLISHtrap (noun) · traps (plural noun) · trap-rock (noun) · trap-rocks (plural noun) · traprock (noun) · traprocks (plural noun)- basalt or a similar dark, fine-grained igneous rock.
Originlate 18th century: from Swedish trapp, from trappa ‘stair’ (because of the often stair-like appearance of its outcroppings).Similar and Opposite Wordsnoun- a device or enclosure designed to catch and retain animals, typically by allowing entry but not exit or by catching hold of a part of the body:
- a situation in which people lie in wait to make a surprise attack:
- a trick by which someone is misled into acting contrary to their interests or intentions:
- an unpleasant situation from which it is hard to escape:
- a person's mouth (used in expressions to do with speaking):
verb- catch (an animal) in a trap.
- have (something, typically a part of the body) held tightly by something so that it cannot move or be freed:
- induce (someone), by means of trickery or deception, to do something they would not otherwise want to do:
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