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trap en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] (Northern-England)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] (Australia, General-American)
  • /tɹæp/
  • [tɾap] (Wales)
  • trăp
  • (US) audio
  • [tɾäp] (Scotland)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] (New-Zealand)

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.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) 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.
    • 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. 1995, Richard Rhodes, quoting Curtis LeMay, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 574:
  2. (countable, uncountable) 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.
    • God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me! 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. ▸ A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
    • trap street
  4. (countable, derogatory, informal, offensive, slang, sometimes, uncountable, usually) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. ▸ Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
    • And trust me you don't want to see a trap ether. I like my girls without a ding-a-ling. 2011 May 27, “Re: anons target US chamber”, in alt.2600 (Usenet):
    • , 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?"
    • 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 […] 2020, jaye simpson, it was never going to be okay, Harbour Publishing, →ISBN:
    • “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[.]" 2021, Coulsdon Writers, Back to the Writing, →ISBN, page 37:
  5. (countable, informal, qualifier:sometimes considered offensive, slang, uncountable) A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare. ▸ 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.
    • 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. 2013 September 7, Bobbie Sellers, “Re: What's your favouite anime?”, in rec.arts.manga (Usenet):
    • Bridget is the super trap 2007 Weekend Reading: Bridget is straight by 8bit Brian of Destructoid, reply by batempo on 20 August 2007
    • Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how traps work! 2010 July 20, Antonio E. Gonzalez, “Re:Moyashimon Live Action”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):
    • One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple. 2013, One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47:
  6. (countable, uncountable) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  7. (countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
    • They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
  8. (countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. ▸ A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
    • Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
  9. (archaic, countable, uncountable) Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. ▸ A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
    • They have very generally received the name of trap-rocks, because they often present the appearance of traps or stairs. 1847, David Low, Elements of Practical Agriculture, page 37:
    • There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps. 1798 January 3, Edinburgh Weekly Journal, page 5:
    • I have to bear my burthen up four traps, or ladders, before I get to the main road which leads to the pit bottom. 1842, Ellison Jack (girl, age 11), quoted in The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 48
    • 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. 1867, The Children's hour, page 137:
    • 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 ... 1960, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak:
    • Had climbed up the trap-stair, and was busy potterin' aboot. 1889 (original 1886), Willock, Rosetty Ends, 29
    • Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder. But the emotions of a drunkard change quickly. 1920, Soviet Russia, page 14:
    • Coming near the door, Scorgie cautioned quietness, and pointing to a trap stair he motioned Mr. Love and Donald to ascend to the loft. 1887, George G. Green, Gordonhaven, page 114:
    • 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. 1875, The Gardner: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture, page 3:
  10. (countable, uncountable) 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. ▸ A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
  11. (countable, uncountable) 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. ▸ A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
  12. (countable, uncountable) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  13. (countable, uncountable) A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. ▸ The game of trapball itself.
  14. (US, also, attributive, countable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
    • trap car
    • trap phone
  15. (US, also, attributive, countable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
    • Stay in the trap like my name was McCaulk. Dumb-ahh nigger, I think he meant Culkin. 2021 November 19, “Pink 3 Remix”performed by PCAJAY:
    • 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. 2022 September 25, “Dork”performed by Aeterluv:
    • Maybe T.I was also making connection between fur trapping and living in the trap, or the hood. 2018, Kyle T. Mays, Hip Hop Beats, Indigenous Rhymes: Modernity and Hip Hop in North America, page 93:
  16. (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
  17. (countable, slang, uncountable) 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.
  18. (countable, historical, uncountable) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
    • 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. 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
    • 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. 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 2, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
    • 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, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 51”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:
    • a horse and trap
    • 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! 2023 March 8, Paul Salveson, “Fond farewells to two final trains...”, in RAIL, number 978, page 54:
  19. (countable, slang, uncountable) A person's mouth.
    • Keep your trap shut.
  20. (countable, slang, uncountable) 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, Henry Miller, Under the Roofs of Paris (Opus Pistorum), New York: Grove Press, published 1983, page 66:
  21. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable) A policeman.
    • “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.” 1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], Oliver Twist; […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:
  22. (archaic, countable, in-plural, uncountable) Belongings.
    • ...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)... 1870, Mark Twain, Running for Governor:
    • "Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers. 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter IX, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 144:
  23. (countable, slang, uncountable) 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.
  24. (countable, qualifier:gun sports, uncountable) Trapshooting.
  25. (Australia, countable, historical, slang, uncountable) 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, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84:
    • Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by 'the traps' (the goldfield police). 2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55:
  26. (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
    • For the first time in the week since she'd been hooking she hadn't made her trap. 2012 (original 1981), Alix Kates Shulman, On the Stroll: A Novel, Open Road Media
    • 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. 2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55:
    • The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man. 2010, C. J. Land, A Hustler's Tale, page 54:

Forms

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Deriveds

trapshooter · draintrap · trapwork · fall into a trap · high-dividend yield trap · cybertrap · moletrap · ticket trap · traphouse · trap-bath split · flowline trap · trap yard · ovitrap · spamtrap · trapfall · hash-trap · trappose · gully trap · trap bar · trap nest · trap music · walktrap · live-trap · traps case · trap ball · trapstick · traphole · around the traps · trapfinding · trap shoot · sticky trap · trap street · vampire trap · overtrap · detrap · nanotrap · trap crop · pony and trap · belly trap · glue trap · videotrap · trapline · trap maker · birdtrap · predator trap · cryotrap · trap set · dividend trap · vamp trap · high dividend yield trap · trapmaking · traplike · adhesive trap · trap stairs · debt trap diplomacy · dividend value trap · trap-jaw ant · bumtrap · orbitrap · untrap · trap phone · emo trap · trap house · trapless · Foxtrap · trap-pop · trapdoor · heffalump trap · trap car · Kafkatrap · microtrap · rattrap · trap points · race out of the traps · intertrap · fly out of the traps · flytrap · suntrap

Hyponyms

rattle trap · opera house trap · yellow trap · sink trap · ink trap · rattletrap · P trap · Heligoland trap · beginner's trap · value trap · harp trap · smell trap · beartrap · cat-trap · tank trap · stink trap · mantrap · thirst trap · bear trap · sand trap · spin trap · sucker trap · mind like a steel trap · NET · activity trap · debt trap · dust trap · bell trap · canary trap · sedimentary trap · firetrap · fever trap · gene trap · understand trap · grass trap · honey trap · Penning trap · sun trap · camera trap · tourist trap · fish-trap · elephant trap · kettle trap · bus trap · Chinese finger trap · reverse trap · poverty trap · running trap · welfare trap · double trap · death trap · copyright trap · evolutionary trap · live-trap · Rybachy trap · snap trap · gumption trap · mousetrap · speed trap · yrast trap · bottle trap · unemployment trap · Malaise trap · baby trap · offside trap · penis fly trap · U-trap · volcanic trap · radar trap · deathtrap · Macbeth trap · mess trap · booby trap · lobster trap · middle income trap · optical trap · foot trap · gravel trap · funnel trap · Thucydides trap · cold trap · SLAM trap · middle-income trap · louse trap · liquidity trap · bass trap · lean nitrogen oxide trap · S trap · subscription trap · gingerbread trap · fish trap · stench trap · potato trap · monkey trap · magnetic trap · ion trap

Synonyms

vagina · fang · trap music · snare

Translations (284)

enm trappe (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nl klep (slang: mouth) · ru па́сть (slang: mouth) · el δόκανο (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pt armadilha (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi ansa (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · tl bitag (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hu hajítógép (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · bo རྙི (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hy ծուղակ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · tg тузоқ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr trap (someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female) · ru лову́шка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · cs léčka (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ar فَخّ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · tg қапқон (device designed to catch or kill animals) · uz tuzoq (device designed to catch or kill animals) · tr tuzak (device designed to catch or kill animals) · he מלכודת (device designed to catch or kill animals) · zdj mgala (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · bg двуко́лка ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · as ফান্দ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · es trapito (someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female) · bg ли́чни ве́щи (belongings) · cy trap ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · is gildra (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi luukku (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ky тузак (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru западня́ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ang fealle (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · pl właz (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · fi pesä (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · la rēte (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · mk клопка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · cy trap (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi hajulukko (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · esu kapkaanaq (device designed to catch or kill animals) · vi bẫy (device designed to catch or kill animals) · de Maul (slang: mouth) · ug توزاق (device designed to catch or kill animals) · el παγίδα (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · sk pasca (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ta வலை (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ko 함정 (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ki mũtego (device designed to catch or kill animals) · tg дом (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pt alçapão (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · sq kurth (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru сило́к (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi heitin (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · cmn 陷阱 (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · hu holmi (belongings) · uk па́стка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru трап (someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female) · th กับดัก (device designed to catch or kill animals) · be па́стка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hu pofa (slang: mouth) · cy magl (device designed to catch or kill animals) · eu tranpa (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sv vattenlås (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · mi pehipehi (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · it tranello (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ml കെണി (device designed to catch or kill animals) · th กับ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ga trap ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · cmn 圈套 (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · fr clapet (slang: mouth) · nl valluik (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ja(trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ru капка́н (device designed to catch or kill animals) · gd craos (slang: mouth) · pl pułapka (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi turpa (slang: mouth) · gl trapela (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · gl panterlo (device designed to catch or kill animals) · gl trampa (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lt pinklės (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lo ຂາ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · wa trape (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sv fälla (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · da vandlås (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · ota طوزاق (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ca trampa (device designed to catch or kill animals) · arz فخ (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · mi tārore (device designed to catch or kill animals) · rif anday (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · nb vannlås (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · de Fallgrube (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · pl pułapka (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · es trampa (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · lo ຄືນ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · bn ফাঁদ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi loukku (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sl zanka (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru капка́н (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · luy kumutego (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ga dol (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · hu csapda (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hu szifon (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · ca trampa (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · et lõks (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · nl waterslot (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · de Falle (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sv fälla (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hu csapóajtó (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ka ხაფანგი (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ky капкан (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr souricière (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · fr piège (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · mba lit-ag (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hy թակարդ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · el παγίδα (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · et püünis (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pt arapuca (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · eo kaptilo (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lo ກະຕໍ່າ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sl past (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pl potrzask (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr gueule (slang: mouth) · cmn 陷阱 (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pt arapuca (device designed to catch or kill animals) · et lõks (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ro capcană (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi sadin (device designed to catch or kill animals) · wa cepe (device designed to catch or kill animals) · az duzaq (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru сифо́н (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · cmn 圈套 (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lt spąstai (device designed to catch or kill animals) · khb ᦟᦸᧄ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi koppi (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · hy ծուղակ (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ja(device designed to catch or kill animals) · lo ກັບ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi tavarat (belongings) · bg кло́пка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · yi פּאַסטקע (device designed to catch or kill animals) · gl ichó (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pl zasadzka (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · sw mtego (device used to hold and suddenly release an object) · ro capcană (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · hu csapda (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ckb تەڵە (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nb felle (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lv lamatas (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ta பொறி (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hy որոգայթ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ko 올가미 (device designed to catch or kill animals) · enm trappe (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · uk люк (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · tr kapan (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi tikkaat (kind of movable stepladder) · ki gĩterenge (device designed to catch or kill animals) · el σιφώνι (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · ota قپان (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ota طوزاق (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · de Falltür (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · pl syfon (place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet) · fr trappe (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · da fælde (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr collet (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hu kelepce (device designed to catch or kill animals) · vi mỏ (slang: mouth) · de Klappe (slang: mouth) · hu cucc (belongings) · hu száj (slang: mouth) · it trappola (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · wa ricepe (device designed to catch or kill animals) · mn хавх (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fa نژنک (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr piège (device designed to catch or kill animals) · it trappola (device designed to catch or kill animals) · uk ха́пка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · hy որոգայթ (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · bg капа́н (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · pl matnia (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nl zwanenhals (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · la tenus (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru лову́шка (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · tk duzak (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ms jerat (device designed to catch or kill animals) · khb ᦷᦢᧂᧉᦢᦱᧆ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · wa atrape (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · hu kereplő (slang: mouth) · kk қақпан (device designed to catch or kill animals) · es sifa (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · lv murds (device designed to catch or kill animals) · mk стапица (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · fr siphon (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · nl val (device designed to catch or kill animals) · grc παγίς (device designed to catch or kill animals) · tr gaga (slang: mouth) · ca sifó (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · bg сифо́н (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · cs zápachová uzávěrka (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · rif anday (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr traquenard (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · sw mtego (device designed to catch or kill animals) · wa bricole (device designed to catch or kill animals) · mi tarapu ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · mn урхи (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sh zȃmka (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nl valdeur (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · cs sifon (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · fa تله (device designed to catch or kill animals) · de Falle (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · fi ansa (device designed to catch or kill animals) · cs past (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fr charrette anglaise ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · sh за̑мка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · mer mutego (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ca parany (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ca parany (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · ug قاپقان (device designed to catch or kill animals) · el παγίδα (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · pl syfon (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · tg тала (device designed to catch or kill animals) · lv slazds (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pl zapadnia (device designed to catch or kill animals) · es trampa (place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet) · de Siphon (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · kix vēuháutsīe (a type of trap to catch birds using bait with adjustable loop) · es sifón (place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet) · ang fealle (device designed to catch or kill animals) · be люк (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · tt тозак (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ar فَخّ (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · el παγίδα (device designed to catch or kill animals) · bg люк (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ko(device designed to catch or kill animals) · xdq ттям (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ar مِصْيَدَة (device designed to catch or kill animals) · km អន្ទាក់ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ka მახე (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sk pasca (device designed to catch or kill animals) · es cepo (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ckb داو (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fa دام (device designed to catch or kill animals) · sv fallucka (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ba тоҙаҡ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · kk тұзақ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · gd ribe (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · gl trapa (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ru лаз (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · ceb lit-ag (device designed to catch or kill animals) · gd ribe (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ota قپان (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · it tranello (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · es trampucheta (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · pl dwukółka ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · mk стапица (device designed to catch or kill animals) · arz فخ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pl trap (kind of movable stepladder) · es sifón (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · pt cilada (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · he מַלְכֹּדֶת (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nv beeʼódleehí (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nl val (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · pt sifão (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · es trampa (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · de Geruchsverschluss (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · es bombillo (place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet) · hu bűzelzáró (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · es trampa (device designed to catch or kill animals) · pt armadilha (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · bg при́мка (device designed to catch or kill animals) · az tələ (device designed to catch or kill animals) · fi ansa (place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet) · pl klapa (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · pt trap (someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female) · gl trapela (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ml കെണി (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · fi vesilukko (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · srn abiti (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ta உடைமை (belongings) · pl gęba (slang: mouth) · ru западня́ (trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense) · uz qopqon (device designed to catch or kill animals) · nn vasslås (bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe to prevent the escape of noxious gases) · bg капа́н (device designed to catch or kill animals) · ru двуко́лка ((historical) light two-wheeled carriage with springs) · ru люк (covering over a hole or opening; trapdoor) · cmn 偽娘 /伪娘 (someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female) · ota دام (device designed to catch or kill animals)

trap en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] (Northern-England)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] (Australia, General-American)
  • /tɹæp/
  • [tɾap] (Wales)
  • trăp
  • (US) audio
  • [tɾäp] (Scotland)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] (New-Zealand)

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.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
    • 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. 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
    • to trap foxes
  2. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
    • I trapp'd the foe. 1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
    • Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
    • She was trapped into admitting the truth.
  3. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
    • to trap a sewer pipe
    • to trap a drain
  4. (intransitive) 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.
    • trap for beaver
  5. (intransitive, 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.
  6. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  7. (intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  8. (dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:trap.
  9. (informal, offensive, slang, sometimes) 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, Stefan Horlacher, Transgender and Intersex: Theoretical, Practical, and Artistic Perspectives, Palgrave Macmillan US, page 92:
    • 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. 2019, Rachel Anne Williams, Transgressive: A Trans Woman on Gender, Feminism, and Politics, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 32:
    • 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. 2020, Natalie Boero, The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Body and Embodiment, Little, Brown and Company, pages 211–212:
  10. (intransitive, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, 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 June 3, “Wah Gwan Delilah” (3:13 from the start)performed by Snowd4y ft. Drake:

Forms

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trapped Tense=Past lexicographic
trapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
traps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Antonyms

bolter

Deriveds

trap and trace · trappable · mistrap · retrap · trap in · betrap · trapper · trap out

Relateds

entrap · entrapment

Translations (67)

vi bẫy (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · vi bẫy (to catch in a trap or traps) · chr ᎠᏌᏛᎥᏍᎦ (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu csapdába ejt (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi ansastaa (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · pt apanhar (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu elmenekül (to leave suddenly, to flee) · he לכד (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi ansastaa (to catch in a trap or traps) · chr ᎠᏌᏛᎥᏍᎦ (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · fi häipyä (to leave suddenly, to flee) · bg хващам в капан (to catch in a trap or traps) · grc παγιδεύω (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi asentaa hajulukko (to provide with a trap) · pl łapać (to catch in a trap or traps) · nl vangen (to catch in a trap or traps) · km ទាក់ (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu elhúzza a csíkot (to leave suddenly, to flee) · ca atrapar (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu meglóg (to leave suddenly, to flee) · it intrappolare (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu csapdával fog (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu lelép (to leave suddenly, to flee) · la laqueō (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi pyytää ansoilla (to catch in a trap or traps) · el παγιδεύω (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · pt enredar (to catch in a trap or traps) · gd rib (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · de Fallen stellen (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · el στήνω παγίδες (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · pt armar cilada (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · nap fregà (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · de fangen (to catch in a trap or traps) · fr piéger (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu meglép (to leave suddenly, to flee) · fr intercepter (computing:to capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it) · hy ծուղակով բռնել (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi paikallistaa (computing:to capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it) · hu elinal (to leave suddenly, to flee) · hu tőrbe csal (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu eltöm (to provide with a trap) · grc περικλείω (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · gd rib (to catch in a trap or traps) · it intrappolare (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · fi ansoittaa (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · bg поставям капани (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · cho yukachi (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi ajaa ansaan (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu rászed (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · pt prender (to catch in a trap or traps) · es atrapar (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu csapdába csal (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · es trampear (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · fr attraper (to catch in a trap or traps) · hu elzár (to provide with a trap) · km ទាក់ (to catch in a trap or traps) · bg впримчвам (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hu eliszkol (to leave suddenly, to flee) · es atrampar (to catch in a trap or traps) · la laqueō (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · sw tega (to provide with a trap) · el παγιδεύω (to catch in a trap or traps) · sw tega (to set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game) · ca atrapar (to ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap) · hy ծուղակի մեջ գցել (to catch in a trap or traps) · fr piéger (to catch in a trap or traps) · fi ansoittaa (to provide with a trap)

trap en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] (Northern-England)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] (Australia, General-American)
  • /tɹæp/
  • [tɾap] (Wales)
  • trăp
  • (US) audio
  • [tɾäp] (Scotland)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish trapp (“step, stair, stairway”), from Middle Low German trappe (“stair, step”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A dark coloured igneous rock; (now usually) any nongranitic igneous rock.

Forms

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Deriveds

trappy · trappous · trappean

Relateds

trapp

Synonyms

trap rock · traprock

wikidata: Q7835547

trap en · VERB · etymology 3

Pronunciation

  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] (Northern-England)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] (Australia, General-American)
  • /tɹæp/
  • [tɾap] (Wales)
  • trăp
  • (US) audio
  • [tɾäp] (Scotland)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).

Meanings

  1. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
    • [T]here she found her palfrey trapt / In purple blazon'd with armorial gold. 1840, Alfred Tennyson, “Godiva”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 114:
    • To decke his herce, and trap his tomb-blacke steed 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:
    • She was all trapped out in the gaudiest of clothes.

Forms

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trapped Tense=Past lexicographic
traps Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
trapping Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Relateds

trapping

trap en · NOUN · etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔äp] (Northern-England)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔æp] (Australia, General-American)
  • /tɹæp/
  • [tɾap] (Wales)
  • trăp
  • (US) audio
  • [tɾäp] (Scotland)
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ap] (British, Southern, Standard)
  • (Australia) audio
  • [t̠ɹ̠̊˔ɛp] (New-Zealand)

Etymology

Clipping of trapezius.

Meanings

  1. (slang) The trapezius muscle.

Forms

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Relateds

trap set · trip-trap