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IPA: /træp/

Trap is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in trap (aprt).

Definitions for trap

noun

1. a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.
2. any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares.
3. any of various devices for removing undesirable substances from a moving fluid, vapor, etc., as water from steam or cinders from coal gas.
4. Also called air trap. an arrangement in a pipe, as a double curve or a U -shaped section, in which liquid remains and forms a seal for preventing the passage or escape of air or of gases through the pipe from behind or below.
5. traps, the percussion instruments of a jazz or dance band.
6. Trapshooting, Skeet. a device for hurling clay pigeons into the air.
7. the piece of wood, shaped somewhat like a shoe hollowed at the heel, and moving on a pivot, used in playing the game of trapball.
8. the game of trapball.
9. trapdoor.
10. Sports. an act or instance of trapping a ball.
11. Also called mousetrap, trap play. Football. a play in which a defensive player, usually a guard or tackle, is allowed by the team on offense to cross the line of scrimmage into the backfield and is then blocked out from the side, thereby letting the ball-carrier run through the opening in the line.
12. Slang. mouth:
13. Chiefly British. a carriage, especially a light, two-wheeled one.
14. traps, Informal. personal belongings; baggage.
15. any of various fine-grained, dark-colored igneous rocks having a more or less columnar structure, especially some form of basalt.
16. a ladder or ladderlike device used to reach a loft, attic, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to catch in a trap; ensnare:
2. to catch by stratagem, artifice, or trickery.
3. to furnish or set with traps.
4. to provide (a drain or the like) with a trap.
5. to stop and hold by a trap, as air in a pipe.
6. Sports. to catch (a ball) as it rises after having just hit the ground.
7. Football. to execute a trap against (a defensive player).
8. to furnish with or as with trappings; caparison.

verb (used without object)

1. to set traps for game:
2. to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs.
3. Trapshooting, Skeet. to work the trap.

Origin of trap

before 1000; Middle English trappe (noun), trappen (v.), Old English træppe (noun), cognate with Middle Dutch trappe (Dutch trap) trap, step, staircase; akin to Old English treppan to tread,

Examples for trap

By the time Sotloff was allowed to leave the border crossing, the trap was set.

In this way, the U.S. would avoid the trap of being viewed, once again, as the leader of an anti-Islamic crusade.

But Reconcile is from a slightly different arm of Houston hip-hop—more focused on spiritual triumph over the trap.

If I was going into a trap it was just as well to let somebody know whom I was last seen with.

What was it—madness, a nightmare, or a trap into which he had been decoyed with fiendish artfulness?

The soft-hearted angel was caught in the trap set for her pity.

Besides, you two might like to watch how I set a trap to catch a fox.

You now have a growing number of candidates and elected officials who can do that without having to fall into that trap.

I might have known that the lawyer would have had me in the trap.

Do not fall into the trap of being swayed by political notion.