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▸ noun: A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
▸ noun: (by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
▸ noun: A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
▸ noun: (now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
▸ noun: A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
▸ noun: The game of trapball itself.
▸ noun: Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
▸ noun: (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
▸ noun: (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
▸ noun: (slang) A person's mouth.
▸ noun: (slang) Synonym of vagina.
▸ noun: (slang, archaic) A policeman.
▸ noun: (in the plural, archaic) Belongings.
▸ noun: (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
▸ noun: (gun sports) Trapshooting.
▸ noun: (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
▸ noun: (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
▸ noun: (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
▸ noun: (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
▸ noun: (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
▸ noun: (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
▸ noun: (slang, informal, usually offensive, usually derogatory) Someone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
▸ noun: (slang, informal, usually 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 ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.
▸ noun: (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
▸ verb: (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
▸ verb: (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
▸ verb: (transitive) To provide with a trap.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
▸ verb: (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
▸ verb: (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
▸ verb: (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
▸ verb: (slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
▸ verb: (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
▸ noun: A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
▸ verb: To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
▸ noun: (slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.
▸ noun: (US, legislation) Acronym of targeted regulation of abortion providers.
▸ noun: (employment law) Acronym of training-repayment-agreement provision.
▸ noun: (medicine) Initialism of twin reversed arterial perfusion.
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