To ensnare to take by stratagem to entrap.To physically, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.(slang, informal, pejorative) A person with male genitalia who can be mistaken for a female a convincing transvestite or transwoman.(US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.* 2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55,ĭiggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps ’ (the goldfield police).The miners? grievances centred on the issue of the compulsory purchase of miners? licences and the harassment of raids by the licensing police, the ‘ traps ,’ in search of unlicensed miners. * 1996, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84,.
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(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in). his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar. Īt the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. I had told them they could have my trap to take them as far as the road went, because after that they had a long walk. At the end of the Bottoms a man stood in a sort of old-fashioned trap, bending over bundles of cream-coloured stuff while a cluster of women held up their arms to him, some with bundles. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.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.They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball the game of trapball itself.A covering over a hole or opening a trapdoor.Ĭlose the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.God and your majesty / Protect mine innocence, or I fall into / The trap is laid for me! Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense a snare.I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem. 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.
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