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→‎Noun: Per WT:FICTION “fictional characters from anime” can only be included in so far as the usage has escaped to the real world. Otherwise this gloss is also self-contradictory, since a character in anime cannot speak about fictional characters in anime (unless watching himself anime). Resolves RFV. And so we boast of a much clearer definition, which also makes it obvious why it is called “trap”.
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#: {{ux|en|'''trap''' car}}
#: {{ux|en|'''trap''' car}}
# {{lb|en|slang|informal|sometimes considered|_|offensive}} A fictional [[character]] from [[anime]], or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; [[otokonoko]].
# {{lb|en|slang|originally|_|anime|_|culture|informal|sometimes considered|_|offensive}} A [[person]] who appears to be [[female]] but [[turn out|turns out]] to be [[endowed]] with a [[penis]].
#: {{syn|en|otokonoko|chick with a dick}}
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#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=20 July 2010|author=Antonio E. Gonzalez| title=Re:Moyashimon Live Action| url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime.misc/DJP-g5YZKhc/f6KvhtHBnccJ| newsgroup=rec.arts.anime.misc| passage=Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how '''traps''' work!}}
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#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=27 May 2011| title=Re: anons target US chamber| url=https://archive.is/d6q0d| passage=And trust me you don't want to see a '''trap''' ether. I like my girls without a ding-a-ling.}}
#* '''2013''', [http://grandline3point5.thecomicseries.com/comics/48 One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47]:
#* '''2013''', [http://grandline3point5.thecomicseries.com/comics/48 One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47]:
#*: One way to spot a '''trap''' is to look for an adam's apple.
#*: One way to spot a '''trap''' is to look for an adam's apple.
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#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=20 July 2010|author=Antonio E. Gonzalez| title=Re:Moyashimon Live Action| url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.anime.misc/DJP-g5YZKhc/f6KvhtHBnccJ| newsgroup=rec.arts.anime.misc| passage=Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how '''traps''' work!}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=7 September 2013|author=Bobbie Sellers|title=Re: What's your favouite anime?|url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.manga/3ZNtSeWAfRI/_kEeMnxzP6kJ|newsgroup=rec.arts.manga|passage=I saw Episode 10 of the anime today. When it explains about the '''trap''''s problems in HS it was much clearer than the same section of the manga.}}
#* {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=7 September 2013|author=Bobbie Sellers|title=Re: What's your favouite anime?|url=https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rec.arts.manga/3ZNtSeWAfRI/_kEeMnxzP6kJ|newsgroup=rec.arts.manga|passage=I saw Episode 10 of the anime today. When it explains about the '''trap''''s problems in HS it was much clearer than the same section of the manga.}}
# {{lb|en|music genre|uncountable}} A genre of [[hip-hop]] music, with [[half-time]] drums and heavy [[sub-bass]].
# {{lb|en|music genre|uncountable}} A genre of [[hip-hop]] music, with [[half-time]] drums and heavy [[sub-bass]].
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#: {{syn|en|trap music}}
# {{rfv-sense|en}} {{lb|en|slang|informal|chiefly|_|derogatory|_|or|_|offensive}} A [[trans woman]] or [[transfeminine]] person.
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# {{lb|en|slang|uncountable}} The [[money]] earned by a [[prostitute]] for a [[pimp]].
# {{lb|en|slang|uncountable}} The [[money]] earned by a [[prostitute]] for a [[pimp]].
#* '''2010''', C. J. Land, ''A Hustler's Tale'', page 54:
#* '''2010''', C. J. Land, ''A Hustler's Tale'', page 54:

Revision as of 21:04, 19 May 2021

See also: Trap, TRAP, tráp, and tråp

English

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Leghold trap

Pronunciation

  • enPR: trăp, IPA(key): /tɹæp/, [tɹ̥æp], [tʃɹ̥æp]
  • (Northern English) IPA(key): [t̠ɹ̝̊äp]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -æp

Etymology 1

From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (“trap, snare”) (also in betræppan (“to trap”)) from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”).

Akin to Old High German trappa, trapa (“trap, snare”), Middle Dutch trappe (“trap, snare”), Middle Low German treppe (“step, stair”) (German Treppe "step, stair"), Old English treppan (“to step, tread”) and possibly Albanian trap (“raft, channel, path”). Connection to "step" is "that upon which one steps". French trappe and Spanish trampa are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.

Noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

  1. 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.
    Synonym: snare
    I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
  2. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
    Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny.
  3. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
    Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
  4. (now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
    • 1798 January 3, Edinburgh Weekly Journal, page 5:
      There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps.
    • 1842, Ellison Jack (girl, age 11), quoted in The Condition and Treatment of the Children Employed in the Mines, page 48:
      "I have to bear my burthen up four traps, or ladders, before I get to the main road which leads to the pit bottom."
    • 1847, David Low, Elements of Practical Agriculture, page 37
      They have very generally received the name of trap-rocks, because they often present the appearance of traps or stairs.
    • 1867, The Children's hour, page 137:
      Little Alf turned at once, and bidding Frank good-bye, he went into the house, and climbed up the trap stair into his little room in the garret, and pondered in his heart these words of Dolly's.
    • 1875, The Gardner: A Magazine of Horticulture and Floriculture, page 3:
      The labour and time that are saved by thus concentrating and placing the heating power in doing away with the running to so many points, and up and down so many stairs or traps in attending to a number of fires, is also well worth noticing.
    • 1887, George G. Green, Gordonhaven, page 114:
      Coming near the door, Scorgie cautioned quietness, and pointing to a trap stair he motioned Mr. Love and Donald to ascend to the loft.
    • 1889 (original 1886), Willock, Rosetty Ends, 29:
      Had climbed up the trap-stair, and was busy potterin' aboot.
    • 1920, Soviet Russia, page 14:
      Tossing, the negro walks up the trap-ladder. But the emotions of a drunkard change quickly.
    • 1960, Bernard Guilbert Guerney, An Anthology of Russian Literature in the Soviet Period from Gorki to Pasternak
      The stokers, breaking into excited talk, picked him up and dragged him up the trap ladder to the deck. The Canadian wiped the blood off Petka's injured forehead ...
  5. A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
  6. The game of trapball itself.
  7. Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
    They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
  8. 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.
  9. A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
  10. (aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
    After 100 traps, the arresting cables have to be replaced to minimize the danger of a worn or fatigued cable snapping under an aircraft.
  11. (historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
    • 1913, D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, chapter 2
      The two women looked down the alley. 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.
    • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 51
      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.
    • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
      At the last moment Mollie, the foolish, pretty white mare who drew Mr. Jones's trap, came mincing daintily in, chewing at a lump of sugar.
  12. (slang) A person's mouth.
    Keep your trap shut.
  13. (in the plural) Belongings.
    • 1870, Mark Twain, Running for Governor,
      ...his cabin-mates in Montana losing small valuables from time to time, until at last, these things having been invariably found on Mr. Twain's person or in his "trunk" (newspaper he rolled his traps in)...
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter IX, p. 144, [1]
      "Carry your traps out, Ma?" asked one of the passengers.
  14. (slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).
    I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you.
  15. (sports) Trapshooting.
  16. (geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
  17. (computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  18. (Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
    • 1996, Judith Kapferer, Being All Equal: Identity, Difference and Australian Cultural Practice, page 84,
      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.
    • 2006, Helen Calvert, Jenny Herbst, Ross Smith, Australia and the World: Thinking Historically, page 55,
      Diggers were angered by frequent licence inspections and harassment by ‘the traps’ (the goldfield police).
  20. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
    trap phone
    trap car
  21. (slang, originally anime culture, informal, sometimes considered offensive) A person who appears to be female but turns out to be endowed with a penis.
    Synonyms: otokonoko, chick with a dick
    • 2010 July 20, Antonio E. Gonzalez, “Re:Moyashimon Live Action”, in rec.arts.anime.misc‎[2] (Usenet):
      Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how traps work!
    • 2011 May 27, “Re: anons target US chamber”, in ‎[3] (Usenet):
      And trust me you don't want to see a trap ether. I like my girls without a ding-a-ling.
    • 2013, One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47:
      One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple.
    • 2013 September 7, Bobbie Sellers, “Re: What's your favouite anime?”, in rec.arts.manga‎[4] (Usenet):
      I saw Episode 10 of the anime today. When it explains about the trap's problems in HS it was much clearer than the same section of the manga.
  22. (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
    Synonym: trap music
  23. (slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
    • 2010, C. J. Land, A Hustler's Tale, page 54:
      The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man.
    • 2011, Shaheem Hargrove, Sharice Cuthrell, The Rise and Fall of a Ghetto Celebrity, page 55:
      The code was to call a pimp and tell him you have his hoe plus turn over her night trap but that was bull because the HOE was out of his stable months before I copped her.
    • 2012 (original 1981), Alix Kates Shulman, On the Stroll: A Novel, Open Road Media (→ISBN):
      For the first time in the week since she'd been hooking she hadn't made her trap.
Antonyms

(aircraft-carrier landing): bolter

Derived terms
Terms derived from trap (noun)
Translations
trap shooting — see trapshooting
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Verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

  1. (transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
    • 2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:
      As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels. The reason plaque forms isn’t entirely known, but it seems to be related to high levels of cholesterol inducing an inflammatory response, which can also attract and trap more cellular debris over time.
    to trap foxes
  2. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
  3. (transitive) To provide with a trap.
    to trap a drain
    to trap a sewer pipe
  4. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
    trap for beaver
  5. (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.
    After three consecutive bolters, the pilot finally trapped successfully on the Nimitz.
  6. (intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.
  7. (US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
  8. (computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  9. (mining, dated) To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
Antonyms

(land on an aircraft carrier):

Derived terms
Translations
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References

  • 1895, William Dwight Whitney, The Century Dictionary, page 6441, "trap": "A kind of movable ladder or steps: a ladder leading up to a loft."

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Swedish trapp (“step, stair, stairway”), from Middle Low German trappe (“stair, step”).

Noun

trap (countable and uncountable, plural traps)

  1. A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
Derived terms

Etymology 3

Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 2 should be a valid language, etymology language or family code; the value "ONF." is not valid. See WT:LOL, WT:LOL/E and WT:LOF., a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab (“a kind of cloth”).

Verb

trap (third-person singular simple present traps, present participle trapping, simple past and past participle trapped)

  1. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

trap (plural traps)

  1. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trap, from Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trappō, *trappōn.

Pronunciation

Noun

trap (plural trappe, diminutive trappie)

  1. stairs, staircase

Albanian

Etymology

Either a t- prefixed form of *rap, related to rrap (cf. Old Norse raptr (“rafter”), English raft), or akin to Proto-Germanic *trap-, compare Old High German trappa, trapa (“trap, snare”), German Treppe (“step, stair”), Old English treppan (“to step, tread”), English trap.

Noun

trap m

  1. raft, ferry
  2. thick grove
  3. furrow, channel, ditch
  4. path (on the mountains or in the woods)

Czech

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *torpъ.

Noun

trap m inan

  1. trot
    Synonyms: klus, poklus

Etymology 2

Noun

trap m inan

  1. trap shooting

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

Template:cs-verb form

  1. second-person singular imperative of trápit

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trappō, *trappōn, from Proto-Indo-European *dremb- (“to run”).

Noun

trap m (plural trappen, diminutive trapje n or trappetje n)

  1. stairs, staircase
  2. ladder
  3. degree, grade
  4. kick (act of kicking)
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: trap
  • → Japanese: タラップ (tarappu)
  • → Russian: трап (trap)

Verb

trap

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of trappen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of trappen

Etymology 2

From German Trappe, from Polish drop or Czech drop.

Noun

trap f (plural trappen, diminutive trapje n)

  1. bustard

Anagrams

Finnish

Etymology

From English trap

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtrɑp/, [ˈt̪rɑ̝p]
  • IPA(key): /ˈtræp/, [ˈt̪ræp]
  • Rhymes: -ɑp
  • Syllabification(key): trap

Noun

trap

  1. trapshooting, trap (type of shooting sport)

Declension

Pronunciation /ˈt̪rɑp/:

Declension of trap (type risti)
singular plural
nominative trap trapit
genitive trapin trappien
partitive trappia trappeja
accusative trap
trapin 		trapit
inessive trapissa trapeissa
elative trapista trapeista
illative trappiin trappeihin
adessive trapilla trapeilla
ablative trapilta trapeilta
allative trapille trapeille
essive trappina trappeina
translative trapiksi trapeiksi
abessive trapitta trapeitta
instructive – trapein
comitative – trappeineen

Pronunciation /ˈt̪ræp/:

Declension of trap (type risti)
singular plural
nominative trap trapit
genitive trapin trappien
partitive trappiä trappejä
accusative trap
trapin 		trapit
inessive trapissä trapeissä
elative trapistä trapeistä
illative trappiin trappeihin
adessive trapillä trapeillä
ablative trapiltä trapeiltä
allative trapille trapeille
essive trappinä trappeinä
translative trapiksi trapeiksi
abessive trapittä trapeittä
instructive – trapein
comitative – trappeineen

See also

Polish

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Pronunciation

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

trap m inan

  1. (nautical) gangway, gangplank, gangboard, accommodation ladder
  2. trapdoor
    Synonym: zapadnia
Declension
Declension of trap
singular plural
nominative trap trapy
genitive trapu trapów
dative trapowi trapom
accusative trap trapy
instrumental trapem trapami
locative trapie trapach
vocative trapie trapy

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

trap

  1. second-person singular imperative of trapić

Further reading

Portuguese

Etymology

From English trap.

Noun

trap m or f (plural traps)

  1. trap (a transvestite or trans woman)

Noun

trap m (uncountable)

  1. trap (music)

Spanish

Etymology

From English trap.

Noun

trap m (uncountable)

  1. trap (music)

Derived terms

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