How to pronounce “trap”

Meaning

• [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.
• A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
• (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
• Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
• 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.
• A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
• (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
• (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
• (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
• (slang) A person's mouth.
• (slang) Synonym of vagina.
• (slang, archaic) A policeman.
• (in the plural, archaic) Belongings.
• (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
• (gun sports) Trapshooting.
• (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
• (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.
• (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• (transitive) To provide with a trap.
• (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
• (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
• (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
• (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
• (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
• (slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
• (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

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