Definitions for man-trap

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Spelling: [man-trap]
IPA: /ˈmænˌtræp/

Man-Trap is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 162 anagrams from letters in man-trap (-aamnprt).

Definitions for man-trap

noun

  1. an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
  2. Slang. a woman who is purported to be dangerously seductive or who schemes in her amours; femme fatale.

Origin of man-trap

First recorded in 1765-75

Examples for man-trap

This looks like a man-trap of the “Red-tapers” to get rid of a popular leader.

His injury when the man-trap fell must have been only a slight one.

Dont go to him, I called out of the window, hes an assassin,a man-trap!

He was held fast in a man-trap which had terribly lacerated his lower limbs.

You might both have got ten years for fixing a man-trap, to wit, a lethal engine.

Old Fulcher had not got far into the car before he put his foot into a man-trap.

It was a man-trap; if it had been for a bear it would be fastened to a piece of loose log.

"You got me out of that man-trap of yours," Jerry continued.

Doggone it, a bachelor never has any such a man-trap around in a fellow's road.

The man-trap which he had set would not now fail through Dea's obstinacy.

Word Value for man-trap
Scrable

5

Words with friends

7

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