| trap | |
| 1. n. 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. | |
| 2. n. 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. n. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor. | |
| Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck. | |
| 4. n. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball | |
| 5. n. The game of trapball itself. | |
| 6. n. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object. | |
| They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap. | |
| 7. n. 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. | |
| 8. n. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet. | |
| 9. n. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs. | |
| 10. n. (slang) A person's mouth. | |
| Keep your trap shut. | |
| 11. n. (in the plural) Belongings. | |
| 12. n. (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. | |
| 13. n. (sports) Trapshooting. | |
| 14. n. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event. | |
| 15. n. (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush. | |
| 16. n. (US, slang) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold. (Also used attributively to describe things which are used for the sale of drugs, e.g. | |
| 17. n. A kind of movable stepladder. | |
| 18. n. (slang) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite. | |
| 19. n. (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 textual gender. | |
| 20. n. (music) A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music. | |
| 21. v. To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap. | |
| to trap foxes | |
| 22. v. To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap. | |
| 23. v. To provide with a trap. | |
| to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe | |
| 24. v. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game | |
| trap for beaver | |
| 25. v. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee. | |
| 26. v. (US, slang) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area. | |
| 27. v. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it. | |
| 28. n. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock. | |
| 29. v. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses). | |
| 30. n. (slang) The trapezius muscle. | |
