Usually means: Device designed to capture mice.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word mousetrap:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. mousetrap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mousetrap: Merriam-Webster
  3. mousetrap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mousetrap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mousetrap: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mousetrap: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mousetrap, mousetrap: Wordnik
  8. mousetrap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mousetrap: Wiktionary
  10. mousetrap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mousetrap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mousetrap: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mousetrap: Dictionary.com
  14. mousetrap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mousetrap (Denver), Mousetrap (disambiguation), Mousetrap (play), Mousetrap (rocket), Mousetrap (weapon), Mousetrap, The Mousetrap (play), The Mousetrap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. mousetrap: Rhymezone
  17. mousetrap: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. mousetrap: FreeDictionary.org
  19. mousetrap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. mousetrap: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mousetrap (song): Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MOUSETRAP: Acronym Finder
  2. mousetrap: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mousetrap: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mousetrap, mousetrap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mousetrap: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)

(Note: See mousetrapped as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
noun:  (countable, Internet) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
noun:  (chiefly British, informal, uncountable) Ordinary, everyday cheese.
noun:  (New Zealand) A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved.
noun:  (military, historical) An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.
verb:  (figuratively) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
verb:  (Internet, transitive) To prevent (the user) from leaving a website by opening another copy when it is closed.

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