Usually means: Device designed to capture, restrain.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. trap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trap: Merriam-Webster
  3. trap, trap, trap, trap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trap: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trap, trap: Wordnik
  7. trap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. TRAP, trap: Wiktionary
  9. trap: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trap: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trap: Dictionary.com
  13. trap (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. trap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TRAP, The Trap (TV series), The Trap (disambiguation), The Trap (television documentary series), The Trap, Trap (Dead Man Ray album), Trap (EDM), Trap (Henry Lau EP), Trap (Henry Lau album), Trap (Henry Lau song), Trap (Shakira song), Trap (TV series), Trap (carriage), Trap (computing), Trap (disambiguation), Trap (genre), Trap (music genre), Trap (plumbing), Trap (printing), Trap (tactic), Trap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Trap: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. trap: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. trap: Rhymezone
  19. trap, trap(ladder) (de), trap (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. trap: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Trap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. trap: FreeDictionary.org
  23. trap: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. trap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. trap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. trap: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. trap: Legal dictionary

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. trap: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. trap: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Technopedia (No longer online)
  5. Trap (plumbing), trap: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. trap: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TRAP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. trap: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  2. TRAP: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. trap, trap, trap, trap, trap, trap: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trap: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Trap: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. Trap: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  6. the trap: Urban Dictionary
  7. Trap: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trap: Dan's Poker
  2. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  3. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  4. Trap: Sports Definitions

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Trap: Construction Glossary
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  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.
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:  (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
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:  Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
noun:  A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
noun:  (now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
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:  (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
noun:  A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
noun:  The game of trapball itself.
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:  (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:  (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
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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