trap
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: traps
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: traps
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: trapping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: trapped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: trapped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
The Russian bear has always been eager to stick his paw in Latin American waters. Now we've got him in a trap, let's take his leg off right up to his testicles. On second thought, let's take off his testicles, too.
gloss: A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me!
gloss: A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
examples: trap street
gloss: A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
derogatory
informal
offensive
slang
sometimes
uncountable
usually
examples: And trust me you don't want to see a trap ether. I like my girls without a ding-a-ling.
man says he isn't a fag when asking
to masturbate with my body. positions
himself as conqueror, calls my body
trick,
trap,
tranny.
man fucks witch
embarrassed by his own release […]
“My son is a tranny.” “No, mother dear, I'm a Trap. There is a difference. You should have knocked before you came in.” 'Trap'? For all she knew about terms for cross-dressers he could have said he was a splurge monkey or yiff jumper and it would have meant the same. […] "Now I'm Poppy. I'm a boy who's androgynous enough to be confused as a girl[.]"
, The Book of Voltaire: The Complete Bundle (Season 1) 3rd Edition REVISED, Klei Nightwriter
I love femboys better than trannies, traps are better than futa anyway. We conversed and we started to get close. I chose her. So, she told me to sit down so she can cut my hair. "I want to dye my hair; how much is that?"
gloss: A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
slang
uncountable
examples: Bridget is the super trap
Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how traps work!
I saw Episode 10 of the anime today. When it explains about the trap's problems in HS it was much clearer than the same section of the manga.
One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple.
gloss: An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
gloss: Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
gloss: Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
uncountable
examples: There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps.
I have to bear my burthen up four traps, or ladders, before I get to the main road which leads to the pit bottom.
They have very generally received the name of trap-rocks, because they often present the appearance of traps or stairs.
Little Alf turned at once, and bidding Frank good-bye, he went into the house, and climbed up the trap stair into his little room in the garret, and pondered in his heart these words of Dolly's.
The labour and time that are saved by thus concentrating and placing the heating power in doing away with the running to so many points, and up and down so many stairs or traps in attending to a number of fires, is also well worth noticing.
Coming near the door, Scorgie cautioned quietness, and pointing to a trap stair he motioned Mr. Love and Donald to ascend to the loft.
Had climbed up the trap-stair, and was busy potterin' aboot.
Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder. But the emotions of a drunkard change quickly.
The stokers, breaking into excited talk, picked him up and dragged him up the trap ladder to the deck. The Canadian wiped the blood off Petka's injured forehead ...
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
pos: noun
tags: US
also
attributive
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: trap phone
trap car
gloss: An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
pos: noun
tags: US
also
attributive
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Maybe T.I was also making connection between fur trapping and living in the trap, or the hood.
Stay in the trap like my name was McCaulk. Dumb-ahh nigger, I think he meant Culkin.
Bitch ass nigga get rocked. I walk in da trap with a Glock and a K in my sock. U fag ass nigga get popped. U a gay lil dumb ahh nigga came from TikTok. I'mma talk my shi won't stop. Bitch u all on my dick for a drop, nigga get off my cock.
gloss: A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.
gloss: A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
examples: a horse and trap
The two women looked down the alley. At the end of the Bottoms a man stood in a sort of old-fashioned trap, bending over bundles of cream-coloured stuff; while a cluster of women held up their arms to him, some with bundles.
I had told them they could have my trap to take them as far as the road went, because after that they had a long walk.
At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
However, Anyon Kay remembers a Mr Walton Ainsworth, of Beech House, Rivington, who owned mills in Bolton, being a regular user before the First World War. He used to drive by horse and trap from his mansion to catch the 0906 train to Bolton each day. Before arriving at the station, local newsagent Tom Dutton would hand Mr Ainsworth his morning paper!
gloss: A person's mouth.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: Keep your trap shut.
gloss: Synonym of vagina.
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: But she carries the shawl so well that you never get a peep at her trap until she’s ready to show it to you.
gloss: A policeman.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: “He hung about, not to come over here afore dark, but he’ll be here soon,” replied Chitling. “There’s nowhere else to go to now, for the people at the Cripples are all in custody, and the bar of the ken—I went up there and see it with my own eyes—is filled with traps.”
gloss: Belongings.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
countable
in-plural
uncountable
examples: ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
"Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers.
gloss: A cubicle (in a public toilet).
pos: noun
tags: countable
slang
uncountable
examples: I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
gloss: Trapshooting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
countable
historical
slang
uncountable
examples: The miners′ grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners′ licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘traps,’ in search of unlicensed miners.
Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by 'the traps' (the goldfield police).
gloss: The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
examples: The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man.
The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
For the first time in the week since she'd been hooking she hadn't made her trap.
gloss: To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trap foxes
As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
gloss: To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
I trapp'd the foe.
gloss: To provide with a trap.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to trap a drain
to trap a sewer pipe
gloss: To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: trap for beaver
They trapped north along the river.
gloss: To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
gloss: To leave suddenly, to flee.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
pos: verb
tags: dated
examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:trap.
gloss: Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
pos: verb
tags: informal
offensive
slang
sometimes
examples: Straight cis men persist in believing that my transition is all about them—tricking them, trapping them, ruining them.
A "trap" is basically a trans girl or crossdresser who "tricks" or "traps" a straight male into getting aroused by them and then suddenly reveals their trans status.
the Western pornography genre in which a straight man believes he is being seduced by a cis woman, and by the time he discovers she is trans has been “trapped” by his lust into having a sexual encounter with her.
gloss: To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
slang
examples: My kicks are wet from trappin' in the rain / Stole these Marshall bikes today / But don't walk in the bikers' lane / Or you're gonna catch a deafaz to the brain
Related words: entrap
entrapment
Derived words: adhesive trap
around the traps
belly trap
birdtrap
bumtrap
cryotrap
cybertrap
debt trap diplomacy
detrap
dividend trap
dividend value trap
draintrap
fall into a trap
flowline trap
fly out of the traps
flytrap
Foxtrap
glue trap
gully trap
hash-trap
heffalump trap
high dividend yield trap
high-dividend yield trap
intertrap
Kafkatrap
live-trap
microtrap
moletrap
nanotrap
orbitrap
overtrap
ovitrap
pony and trap
race out of the traps
rattrap
spamtrap
sticky trap
suntrap
trap ball
trap bar
trap-bath split
trap car
trap crop
trapdoor
trapfall
trapfinding
traphole
traphouse
trap house
trap-jaw ant
trapless
traplike
trapline
trap maker
trapmaking
trap music
trap nest
trap phone
trap points
trap-pop
trappose
traps case
trap set
trap shoot
trapshooter
trap stairs
trapstick
trap street
trapwork
trap yard
untrap
vampire trap
vamp trap
videotrap
walktrap
betrap
mistrap
retrap
trap and trace
trap in
trap out
trappable
trapper
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: فَخّ
roman: faḵḵ
lang: Arabic
word: فخ
roman: faḵḵ
lang: Armenian
word: ծուղակ
roman: cuġak
lang: Armenian
word: որոգայթ
roman: orogaytʻ
lang: Bulgarian
word: капа́н
roman: kapán
lang: Catalan
word: trampa
lang: Catalan
word: parany
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 陷阱
roman: xiànjǐng
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 圈套
roman: quāntào
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: mgala
lang: Dutch
word: val
lang: Estonian
word: lõks
lang: Finnish
word: ansa
lang: French
word: piège
lang: French
word: traquenard
lang: French
word: souricière
lang: German
word: Falle
lang: Greek
word: παγίδα
roman: pagída
lang: Hungarian
word: csapda
lang: Irish
word: dol
lang: Italian
word: trappola
lang: Italian
word: tranello
lang: Japanese
word: 罠
roman: wana
lang: Latin
word: rēte
lang: Macedonian
word: стапица
roman: stapica
lang: Malayalam
word: കെണി
roman: keṇi
lang: Māori
word: pehipehi
lang: Middle English
word: trappe
lang: Old English
word: fealle
lang: Polish
word: pułapka
lang: Polish
word: zasadzka
lang: Portuguese
word: armadilha
lang: Portuguese
word: cilada
lang: Portuguese
word: arapuca
lang: Romanian
word: capcană
lang: Russian
word: лову́шка
roman: lovúška
lang: Russian
word: западня́
roman: zapadnjá
lang: Russian
word: капка́н
roman: kapkán
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ribe
lang: Slovak
word: pasca
lang: Spanish
word: trampa
lang: Spanish
word: trampucheta
lang: Swedish
word: fälla
lang: Tamil
word: வலை
roman: valai
lang: Tarifit
word: anday
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: طوزاق
roman: tuzak
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: قپان
roman: kapan
lang: Walloon
word: atrape
lang: Finnish
word: koppi
lang: Finnish
word: heitin
lang: Finnish
word: pesä
lang: Greek
word: παγίδα
roman: pagída
lang: Hungarian
word: hajítógép
lang: Swahili
word: mtego
lang: Bulgarian
word: сифо́н
roman: sifón
lang: Catalan
word: sifó
lang: Czech
word: sifon
lang: Czech
word: zápachová uzávěrka
lang: Danish
word: vandlås
lang: Dutch
word: waterslot
lang: Dutch
word: zwanenhals
lang: Finnish
word: hajulukko
lang: Finnish
word: vesilukko
lang: French
word: siphon
lang: German
word: Siphon
lang: German
word: Geruchsverschluss
lang: Greek
word: σιφώνι
roman: sifóni
lang: Hungarian
word: bűzelzáró
lang: Hungarian
word: szifon
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: vannlås
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: vasslås
lang: Polish
word: syfon
lang: Portuguese
word: sifão
lang: Russian
word: сифо́н
roman: sifón
lang: Spanish
word: sifón
lang: Spanish
word: sifa
lang: Swedish
word: vattenlås
lang: Khiamniungan Naga
word: vēuháutsīe