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ALL meanings of trap

trap
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  • noun trap physical: snare 1
  • noun trap trick to catch sb 1
  • transitive verb trap catch, immobilize 1
  • transitive verb trap ensnare 1
  • transitive verb trap catch 1
  • noun trap bad situation 1
  • noun trap stratagem 1
  • noun trap for shooting 1
  • noun trap golf 1
  • noun trap mouth 1
  • noun trap sink pipe 1
  • noun trap a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc. 1
  • noun trap carriage 1
  • verb with object trap to furnish with or as with trappings; caparison. 1
  • noun trap form of basalt 1
  • verb without object trap to set traps for game: He was busy trapping. 1
  • intransitive verb trap trap animals 1
  • verb without object trap to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs. 1
  • intransitive verb trap set traps 1
  • verb without object trap Trapshooting, Skeet. to work the trap. 1
  • transitive verb trap ball 1
  • countable noun trap A trap is a device which is placed somewhere or a hole which is dug somewhere in order to catch animals or birds. 0
  • verb trap If a person traps animals or birds, he or she catches them using traps. 0
  • countable noun trap A trap is a trick that is intended to catch or deceive someone. 0
  • verb trap If you trap someone into doing or saying something, you trick them so that they do or say it, although they did not want to. 0
  • verb trap To trap someone, especially a criminal, means to capture them. 0
  • countable noun trap A trap is an unpleasant situation that you cannot easily escape from. 0
  • verb trap If you are trapped somewhere, something falls onto you or blocks your way and prevents you from moving or escaping. 0
  • verb trap When something traps gas, water, or energy, it prevents it from escaping. 0
  • countable noun trap A trap is a light carriage with two wheels pulled by horses in which people used to travel. 0
  • noun trap a mechanical device or enclosed place or pit in which something, esp an animal, is caught or penned 0
  • noun trap any device or plan for tricking a person or thing into being caught unawares 0
  • noun trap anything resembling a trap or prison 0
  • noun trap a fitting for a pipe in the form of a U-shaped or S-shaped bend that contains standing water to prevent the passage of gases 0
  • noun trap any similar device 0
  • noun trap a device that hurls clay pigeons into the air to be fired at by trapshooters 0
  • noun trap any one of a line of boxlike stalls in which greyhounds are enclosed before the start of a race 0
  • noun trap a light two-wheeled carriage 0
  • noun trap an obstacle or hazard, esp a bunker 0
  • noun trap percussion instruments 0
  • noun trap a policeman 0
  • verb trap to catch, take, or pen in or as if in a trap; entrap 0
  • verb trap to ensnare by trickery; trick 0
  • verb trap to provide (a pipe) with a trap 0
  • verb trap to set traps in (a place), esp for animals 0
  • verb trap to dress or adorn 0
  • noun trap any fine-grained often columnar dark igneous rock, esp basalt 0
  • noun trap any rock in which oil or gas has accumulated 0
  • noun trap any device for catching animals, as one that snaps shut tightly when stepped on, or a pitfall; gin, snare, etc. 0
  • noun trap any stratagem or ambush designed to catch or trick unsuspecting persons 0
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