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Trap

noun

1.

A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned.

2.

Drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas.

3.

Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares. Synonym: snare. "It was all a snare and delusion"

4.

A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters.

5.

The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise. Synonyms: ambuscade, ambush, lying in wait.

6.

Informal terms for the mouth. Synonyms: cakehole, gob, hole, maw, yap.

7.

A light two-wheeled carriage.

8.

A hazard on a golf course. Synonyms: bunker, sand trap.

verb

(past & past part. trapped; pres. part. trapping)

1.

Place in a confining or embarrassing position. Synonym: pin down.

2.

Catch in or as if in a trap. Synonyms: ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel.

3.

Hold or catch as if in a trap.

4.

To hold fast or prevent from moving. Synonyms: immobilise, immobilize, pin.

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"Trap" Quotes from Famous Books

... knew no such thing as fear. He had the heart of a lion, and jaws like a steel trap. And no wise dog ever let Benny get a ...

— The Tale of Benny Badger • Arthur Scott Bailey

... portfolio dotted all over with studies of violets and the wild rose. In him first, appears the taste for what is bizarre or recherche in landscape: hollow places full of the green shadow of bituminous rocks, ridged reefs of trap-rock which cut the water into quaint sheets of light—their exact antitype is in our own western seas; all solemn effects of moving water; you may follow it springing from its distant source among the rocks on the heath of the Madonna of the Balances, passing as a little fall into the treacherous ...

— Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers • Esther Singleton

... a strong mortice-lock and the key did not protrude through to the outer side, so that there was no chance of manipulating the lock from without. In the fireplace there was an electric stove, and from the shower of soot that fell when I raised the trap, it was clear that this had not been touched for some weeks ...

— Malcolm Sage, Detective • Herbert George Jenkins

... clearly marked "gap"; our disappointment when we found the door standing open and the trigger set just as we had left it the mormng before; our keen delight when the door was down; the dash for the trap; the scuffle to decide which should look in first; the peep at the brown ball screwed up back at the far end; the delicate operation, of getting the hare out of the trap; and the triumphant return home, holding up our spoil to be seen ...

— The Long Hillside - A Christmas Hare-Hunt In Old Virginia - 1908 • Thomas Nelson Page

... where this idea that it is necessary artificially to stimulate the defensive zeal of each country by resisting any tendency to agreement and understanding leads. It leads even so good a man as Lord Roberts into the trap of dogmatic prophesy concerning the intentions of a very complex heterogeneous nation of 65 million people. Lord Roberts could not possibly tell you what his own country will do five, ten, or fifteen years hence in such matters ...

— Peace Theories and the Balkan War • Norman Angell

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