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.
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
The game of trapball itself.
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
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.
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
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.
From Middle English trappe, from Old English træppe, treppe (also in betræppan) from Proto-Germanic *trap-, from Proto-Indo-European *drem- ("to run").
Akin to Old High German trappa, trapa, 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". and are ultimately borrowings from Germanic.
Borrowed from Swedish trapp, from Middle Low German trappe.
Akin to Middle English trappe, and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, a byform of Old French drap, a word of the same origin as English drab.
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