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Definition trap

Etymology 1

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”). Akin to Old High German trappa, trapa (“trap, snare”), Middle Dutch trappe (“trap, snare”), Middle Low German treppe (“step, stair”) (German Treppe "step, stair"), Old English treppan (“to step, tread”) and possibly Albanian trap "raft, channel, path". Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

Noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

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 covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
4. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
5. The game of trapball itself.
6. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
7. 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. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
9. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
10. (slang) A person's mouth.
11. (in the plural) Belongings.
12. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
13. (sports) Trapshooting.
14. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
15. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
16. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular) 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. "a trap phone", "a trap car".)
17. A kind of movable stepladder.
18. (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory or offensive) A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite. Some speakers distinguish the term from transgender on the basis of self-designation.
19. (slang, informal, sometimes considered offensive) 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. (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

Verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

1. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
2. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
3. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
4. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
5. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
6. (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
7. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Swedish trapp, from trappa (“stair”).

Noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

1. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

Etymology 3

Akin to Old English trappe (“trappings”), and perhaps from an Old French word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).

Verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

1. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

trap (plural traps)

1. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

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