trap

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Meaning

1. 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.
2. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
3. A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
4. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
5. A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
6. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
7. The game of trapball itself.
8. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
9. 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.
10. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
11. (slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
12. A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
13. (slang) A person's mouth.
14. (slang) Synonym of vagina.
15. (slang) A policeman.
16. Belongings.
17. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
18. Trapshooting.
19. A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
20. An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
21. (slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
22. (slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
23. (slang) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
24. A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
25. (informal,slang) Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
26. (informal,slang) 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.
27. (slang) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

captivate

lying in wait

oil trap

sand sediment trap

set a trap

bring to bay

wave trap

be at bay

be cornered

cep

drain trap

drive into a corner

fall into a trap

fish net

trappide

pit trap

pit-trap

set trap

be checkmated

caught in a spring trap

inmesh

prehend

bargaining chip

oral fissure

water-sealed joint

siphon trap

penny bun

hyena-trap

triek

U-trap

pull-in acquisition

mercury trap

trap rock

trap filter

semiconductor trap

trap-hole

king bolete

close around

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹæp/

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 (“trap, snare”), German Low German Trapp (“trap”). 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.