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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: tr?p, IPA^(key): /t?æp/, [t??æp], [t???æp]
• (Northern English) IPA^(key): [t????äp]
• 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

2. A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
3. A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

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.

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.

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.

    • 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.

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).

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.

21. (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.
    • 2013, One Piece: Grand Line 3 Point 5, page 47:

      One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple.
22. (music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

    Synonym: trap music

23. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (slang, informal, chiefly derogatory or offensive) A trans woman or transfeminine person.
24. (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

Translations

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.

2. (transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
3. (transitive) To provide with a trap.

4. (intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game

5. (aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

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.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:trap.

Antonyms

(land on an aircraft carrier):

• bolter

Derived terms

• betrap

Translations

Related terms

• entrap
• entrapment

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

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

• trappean
• trappous
• trappy

Etymology 3

Akin to Middle English trappe (“trappings, gear”), and perhaps from Old Northern French trape, 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).
   • ?, Alfred Tennyson, Godiva

     There she found her palfrey trapt / In purple blazon'd with armorial gold.

Related terms

• trapping

Etymology 4

Shortening.

Noun

trap (plural traps)

1. (slang, bodybuilding) The trapezius muscle.

Anagrams

• part, part., patr-, prat, rapt, rtPA, tarp

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch trap, from Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trapp?, *trapp?n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trap/

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)

Related terms

• rrap

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?trap]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *torp?.

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 main entry.

Verb

trap

1. second-person singular imperative of trápit

Further reading

• trap in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• trap in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?p/
• Hyphenation: trap
• Rhymes: -?p

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch trappe, from Old Dutch *trappa, from Proto-Germanic *trapp?, *trapp?n, 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
• ? Indonesian: terap
• ? Japanese: ???? (tarappu)
• ? Russian: ???? (trap)

Verb

trap

1. first-person singular present indicative of trappen
2. 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

• prat

Finnish

Etymology

From English trap.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tr?p/, [?t?r?p]
• IPA^(key): /?træp/, [?t?ræp]
• Rhymes: -?p
• Syllabification: trap

Noun

trap

1. trapshooting, trap (type of shooting sport)
2. (ice hockey) trap

Declension

Pronunciation /?t?r?p/:

Pronunciation /?t?ræp/:

See also

• trappi

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /trap/

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

trap

1. second-person singular imperative of trapi?

Further reading

• trap in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• trap in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

From English trap.

Noun

trap m, 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

• trapero

English

Etymology

From Middle English coler, borrowed from Old French coler (Modern French collier), from Late Latin coll?re, from Latin coll?ris, from collum (“neck”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????? (hals, “neck”), Old English heals (“neck”). Compare Spanish cuello (“neck”). More at halse.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?l.?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?.l?/, /?k?l.?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: caller (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

collar (plural collars)

1. Anything that encircles the neck.
   1. The part of an upper garment (shirt, jacket, etc.) that fits around the neck and throat, especially if sewn from a separate piece of fabric.

      • It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
   2. A decorative band or other fabric around the neckline.
   3. A chain worn around the neck.
   4. A similar detachable item.
   5. A coloured ring round the neck of a bird or mammal.
   6. A band or chain around an animal's neck, used to restrain and/or identify it.

   7. A part of harness designed to distribute the load around the shoulders of a draft animal.
   8. (archaic) A hangman's knot.
2. A piece of meat from the neck of an animal.

3. (technology) Any encircling device or structure.
   • Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-to (page 356)

     In this case, slide the collar of the flapper over the overflow tube until it seats against the bottom of the flush valve.

   1. (rail transport) A physical lockout device to prevent operation of a mechanical signal lever.
   2. (architecture) A ring or cincture.
   3. (architecture) A collar beam.
   4. (mining) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft.
4. (in compounds) Of or pertaining to a certain category of professions as symbolized by typical clothing.
5. (botany) The neck or line of junction between the root of a plant and its stem.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gray to this entry?)

6. A ringlike part of a mollusk in connection with the esophagus.
7. (nautical) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
8. (slang) An arrest.
9. (finance) A trading strategy using options such that there is both an upper limit on profit and a lower limit on loss, constructed through taking equal but opposite positions in a put and a call with different strike prices.

Synonyms

• (botany): collum

Derived terms

Related terms

• accolade

Descendants

• ? Hausa: kwala
• ? Burmese: ?????? (kaula)

Translations

Verb

collar (third-person singular simple present collars, present participle collaring, simple past and past participle collared)

1. (transitive) To grab or seize by the collar or neck.
2. (transitive) To place a collar on, to fit with one.

   Collar and leash aggressive dogs.

3. (transitive) To seize, capture or detain.
4. (transitive) To preempt, control stringently and exclusively.
6. (law enforcement, transitive) To arrest.
7. (figuratively, transitive) To bind in conversation.

   I managed to collar Fred in the office for an hour.

8. (transitive) To roll up (beef or other meat) and bind it with string preparatory to cooking.
9. (transitive, BDSM) To bind (a submissive) to a dominant under specific conditions or obligations.

Derived terms

• collaring

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Caroll

Asturian

Noun

collar m (plural collares)

1. necklace (jewelry)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /ko??a/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ku??a/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ko??a?/

Etymology 1

From Late Latin coll?re (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin coll?ris.

Noun

collar m (plural collars)

1. A collar. (a chain or belt placed around the neck of an animal)
2. A collar. (a solid circle of metal placed around the neck of a slave or prisoner)
3. A collar. (any ornament placed at the neck)
4. (historical) A collar. (a gold chain worn about the neck as a badge of belonging to certain chivalric orders)
5. A necklace.
6. (historical, military) An aventail.
7. A collar. (a ring or loop used to support and protect a rotating shaft)
8. A collar. (a ring or loop used to join together two parts of a shaft or pole)
9. (entomology) A collar. (lobed membranous expansion of the prothorax of some insects)
10. (zoology) A collar. (a band of feathers, fur, or scales about the neck of an animal that is of a contrasting color to what is near it)

Synonyms

• (necklace): collaret

Etymology 2

From the action of securing a yoke around the coll (“neck”) of an animal.

Verb

collar (first-person singular present collo, past participle collat)

1. To join together objects through the use of nuts or bolts.
2. To collar a person or animal.
3. To establish control of a person or animal.
4. To twist. (to pressure someone to do something)
5. To screw. (to tighten a screw)
6. (textiles) To adjust a collador (“heddle”).

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to collar an animal): enjovar, junyir
• (to establish control): sotmetre, subjectar

Further reading

• “collar” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “collar” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “collar” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “collar” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From Late Latin coll?re (“an unattached item worn about the neck”), from Latin coll?ris.

Pronunciation

Noun

collar m (plural collares)

1. necklace
2. an animal's collar, band or chain around its neck

Derived terms

• bandurria de collar

Related terms

• cuello

Further reading

• “collar” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.