trap

noun29

1. •
   a device made to catch animals, whose door or metal parts shut on an animal that touches it, to hold it or to kill it

   • I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
2. •
   A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

   • Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
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. •
   (slang) A person's mouth.

   • Keep your trap shut.
5. •
   A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
6. •
   (slang) The trapezius muscle.
7. •
   [before a noun] (US, 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.

   • Maybe T.I was also making connection between fur trapping and living in the trap, or the hood. — 2018
8. •
   [before a noun] (US, slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
9. •
   Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

   • They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
10. •
    A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

    • Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
11. •
    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.
12. •
    A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
13. •
    (slang, offensive) Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.

    • , 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?"
14. •
    (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.

    • Bridget is the super trap — 2007
15. •
    (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

    • 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. — 1919
16. •
    An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
17. •
    A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
18. •
    (slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

    • After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.
19. •
    Trapshooting.
20. •
    (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).

    • I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
21. •
    A dark coloured igneous rock; (now usually) any nongranitic igneous rock.
22. •
    (slang) Synonym of vagina.

    • 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. — 1941
23. •
    (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

    • 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. — 1996
24. •
    (slang) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

    • The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man. — 2010
25. •
    A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
26. •
    The game of trapball itself.
27. •
    (slang, no longer used) A policeman.
28. •
    (no longer used) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

    • There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps. — 1798
29. •
    [in the plural] (no longer used) Belongings.

    • "Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers. — 1938

verb11

1. •
   To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

   • to trap foxes
2. •
   To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

   • Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
   • She was trapped into admitting the truth.
3. •
   (slang, offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.

   • Straight cis men persist in believing that my transition is all about them—tricking them, trapping them, ruining them. — 2016
4. •
   To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.

   • They trapped north along the river.
5. •
   To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
6. •
   (slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

   • 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 — 2024
7. •
   To provide with a trap.
8. •
   (slang) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

   • After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
9. •
   To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

   • She was all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.
10. •
    To leave suddenly, to flee.
11. •
    (old-fashioned) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.

noun3

1. •
   (US) Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
2. •
   Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
3. •
   Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.