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trap

Pronunciation: /tɹæp/

The English word “trap” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  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. Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
  5. 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.
  6. An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  7. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  8. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  9. A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
  10. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
  11. A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
  12. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  13. The game of trapball itself.
  14. A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
  15. An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
  16. A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
  17. A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
  18. A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  19. A person's mouth.
  20. Synonym of vagina.

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,…

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