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tourist trap en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (derogatory) An establishment, such as a shop or display, where tourists are encouraged to spend money on goods or services not necessarily of good value.
   • For fifteen minutes they walked morosely and in silence through the steep streets where the shops are tourist-traps, alluringly baited with corals and trinkets. 1911, Charles Neville Buck, chapter XX, in The Lighted Match:
   • As for Will Deverill, less critical of Nature’s handicraft, he found the inns over-civilised; the Post and the Bräu were too fine for his taste: they had come thus far in search of solitude and Alpine wilds, and they lighted instead on a sort of miniature Grindelwald, with half-a-dozen inns, a respectable café, experienced (or in other words extortionate) guides, and a regular tourist-trap for the sale of chamois-horns and carved models of châlets. 1900, Grant Allen, chapter 1, in Linnet:

Forms

Deriveds

tourist-trappy

Relateds

sucker trap

Translations (11)

tr turist kapanı (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · de Touristenfalle (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · tr turist tuzağı (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · pl sklep z kiczem dla turystów (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · nl toeristenval (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · hu turistacsapda (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · fr attrape-touriste (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · fr piège à touristes (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · fi turistipyydys (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · sv turistfälla (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money) · fi turistirysä (establishment encouraging tourists to spend money)