Definitions for mousetrap

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mousetrap mouse·trap

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IPA: /ˈmaʊsˌtræp/

Mousetrap is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 947 anagrams from letters in mousetrap (aemoprstu).

Definitions for mousetrap

noun

1. a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
2. a device, machine, or the like whose structure or function suggests a trap for mice.
3. a device, system, or stratagem for detecting and catching someone in an unauthorized or illegal act.
4. Football. trap1 (def 11).

Idioms

1. build a better mousetrap, to make or offer a superior product.

verb (used with object)

1. Informal. to trap or snare: to manipulate by devious or clever means; trick or outwit:
2. Football. trap1 (def 20).

Origin of mousetrap

First recorded in 1400-50, mousetrap is from the late Middle English word mous trappe. See mouse, trap¹

Examples for mousetrap

When I got there I found that poor Tom was imprisoned in a mousetrap.

ACME has a mousetrap division that is not performing very well.

I'm here, we're here, and you've just provided me with a way out of this mousetrap!

Each answers what he pleases, as a saucepan, a mousetrap, etc.

It is a piece of cheese—a piece of cheese in a mousetrap, and we are the little mice.

To the left is the "mousetrap," to the right the prison gates.

The players enter and plan with Hamlet the performance of The mousetrap.

I believe she's equal to catching one of them in a mousetrap if she gets the opportunity!

A mousetrap is set, for the cats remain at home, and are hungry for their prey.

It was a “mousetrap,” he said, for the women who were already getting blowouts daily because of the speed and environment.