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    [Plural noun]  | "traps" | \ ˈtraps \


    1: personal belongings : luggage

    Origin: 1813 ;

     Middle English trappe caparison {mat|trap|};

    [Noun]  | "trap" | \ ˈtrap \


    1: a device for taking game or other animals; especially : one that holds by springing shut suddenly

    2: something by which one is caught or stopped unawares; also : a position or situation from which it is difficult or impossible to escape

    3: a football play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then is blocked from the side while the ballcarrier advances through the spot vacated by the defensive player

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English, from Old English treppe & Anglo-French trape (of Germanic origin); akin to Middle Dutch trappe trap, stair, Old English treppan to tread;

    [Noun]  | "trap" 


    1: traprock —often used before another noun

    Origin: 1794 ;

     Swedish trapp, from trappa stair, from Middle Low German trappe; akin to Middle Dutch trappe stair;

    [Noun]  | "black*light trap" | \ ˈblak-ˌlīt- \


    1: a trap for insects that uses a form of black light perceptible to particular insects as an attractant

    Origin: 1953 ;

    [Noun]  | "booby trap" 


    1: a trap for the unwary or unsuspecting : pitfall

    2: a concealed explosive device contrived to go off when some harmless-looking object is touched

    Origin: 1832 ;

    [Noun]  | "light trap" 


    1: a device that allows movement of a sliding part or passage of a person (as into a darkroom) but excludes light

    2: a device for collecting or destroying insects that consists of a bright light in association with a trapping or killing medium

    Origin: 1882 ;

    [Noun]  | "live trap" 


    1: a trap for catching an animal alive and uninjured

    Origin: 1823 ;

    [Noun]  | "lobster trap" 


    1: a usually rectangular wooden or metal cage that is baited and placed on the sea bottom and that has a funnel-shaped net used to trap lobsters

    Origin: 1847 ;

    [Verb]  | "trap" 


    1: to catch or take in or as if in a trap : entrap

    2: to place in a restricted position : confine

    3: to provide or set (a place) with traps

    Origin: 14th century ;

    [Verb]  | "trap" 


    1: to adorn with or as if with trappings or decorations

    Origin: 14th century ;

     Middle English trappen, from trappe caparison, from Anglo-French trape, probably from Medieval Latin trapus cloth, by-form of Late Latin drappus;

    [Noun]  | "traps" 


    1: a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise;


      * e.g., " ... undercover agents devised a trap to catch the counterfeiters "



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    2: a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait;


      * e.g., " ... an overland route to the Far East that was once notorious for the many robbers who laid traps for unsuspecting wayfarers "



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    3: something that catches and holds;


      * e.g., " ... the promotion is really just a trap to keep her from taking a new job elsewhere "



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    [Noun]  | "trap" 


    1: a device or scheme for capturing another by surprise;


      * e.g., " ... undercover agents devised a trap to catch the counterfeiters "



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    2: a setup in which hidden attackers lie in wait;


      * e.g., " ... an overland route to the Far East that was once notorious for the many robbers who laid traps for unsuspecting wayfarers "



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    3: something that catches and holds;


      * e.g., " ... the promotion is really just a trap to keep her from taking a new job elsewhere "



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    [Noun]  | "booby traps" 


    1: a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed;


      * e.g., " ... luckily, the bomb squad didn't find any booby traps "



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    2: a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized;


      * e.g., " ... he noticed the booby trap in the interviewer's question just a little too late "



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    [Noun]  | "booby trap" 


    1: a usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed;


      * e.g., " ... luckily, the bomb squad didn't find any booby traps "



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    2: a danger or difficulty that is hidden or not easily recognized;


      * e.g., " ... he noticed the booby trap in the interviewer's question just a little too late "



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    [Verb]  | "traps" 


    1: to catch or hold as if in a net;


      * e.g., " ... an ambitious young man who was now trapped in a series of shady business deals "




    2: to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly;


      * e.g., " ... finally trapped the annoying fly in the palm of his hand "




    [Verb]  | "trap" 


    1: to catch or hold as if in a net;


      * e.g., " ... an ambitious young man who was now trapped in a series of shady business deals "




    2: to take physical control or possession of (something) suddenly or forcibly;


      * e.g., " ... finally trapped the annoying fly in the palm of his hand "



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    [Verb]  | "booby-traps" 


    1: to place hidden explosive devices in or under;


      * e.g., " ... booby-trapped the field bordering the army's camp "



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    [Verb]  | "booby-trap" 


    1: to place hidden explosive devices in or under;


      * e.g., " ... booby-trapped the field bordering the army's camp "



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     [ "traps" ]

    1: When you send sexual picture to someone.

      * e.g.,  ... Damn kim traps are fye asl. 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: a slang term for the trapeziod muscle found between the neck and the shoulder...

      * e.g.,  ... Wholly shit....look at waughs traps!! what a fuckin' beast.....RAHHHH 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: pictures of a person with usually only undergarments on

      * e.g.,  ... yeah, she sent me traps last night 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: nude pictures and or thirst traps

      * e.g.,  ... you wanna play imessage games for traps? 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: One's regular haunts. The places one frequents or is associated with.

      * e.g.,  ... "News from around the traps is that Sally is bonking Frank" 

     [ "traps" ]

    2: Old fashioned Australian slang, usually phrased as around the traps.

      * e.g.,  ... "Haven't seen you around these here traps for a while!" 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: gay

      * e.g.,  ... traps are gay 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: A trap is a animated guy that dresses up as a female to have sex with another man

      * e.g.,  ... Traps are gay 

     [ "traps" ]

    1: used when referring to nudes.

      * e.g.,  ... aye bro she sent me traps the other day 

     [ "the trap" ]

    1: A ghetto place that if you stay there too long you get trapped there. The people and circumstances bring you down. You make friends with someone they ask you for a ride to work. You get profiled and pulled over. Dude has drugs on him and sticks it in your glove box. Cops arrest both of you. Now you got a felony and can't get financial aid to go to college. You end up working at the local McDonald's. Now you trapped. Dude asks you for a ride to work because it's the trap and doesn't want to walk. You say no. He gets fired for being late. Now you got beef and get mugged by his homies. Now you scared to go outside so you don't get mugged again. So you stay in the house and it feels like you are trapped there. That's the trap house. A lot of times people end up selling drugs in the trap house. They fortify it with armed people making little safe places in an otherwise dangerous area.

      * e.g.,  ... Nobody wants to live in the trap. You can take a man out the trap, but can't take what the trap did out of the man. 

     [ "trapping" ]

    1: To sell drugs inorder to make money and support oneself.

      * e.g.,  ... Im broke, so i guess i gotta start trapping 

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