trap

  1. 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.
  2. Noun.  A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense.
  3. Noun.  A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
  4. Noun.  A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball; the game of trapball itself.
  5. Noun.  Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
  6. 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.
  7. Noun.  A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
  8. Noun.  (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
  9. Noun.  A kind of movable stepladder.
  10. Noun.  (slang) A persons' mouth.
  11. Noun.  (context, plural) belongings.
  12. Noun.  (slang) Short for trapezius muscle in bodybuilding.
  13. Noun.  (slang, pejorative) An arguably convincing crossdresser, transvestite or transsexual, a person born with male genitalia that one engages in a relationship with, believing that person to have been born with female genitalia.
  14. Noun.  (computing) An exception generated by the processor.
  15. Noun.  (Australia, slang) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  16. Verb.  (transitive) To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
  17. Verb.  (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  18. Verb.  (transitive) To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe.
  19. Verb.  (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.
  20. Verb.  (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  21. Verb.  (computing) (intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  22. Noun.  A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

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