TRAP

A 'trap' is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience an intruder. Traps may be physical objects, such as cages or snares, or metaphorical concepts.
'Trap' may refer to:

Contents

Physical traps

Metaphorical traps

Other meanings

Related terms

Place names

People

See also

Physical traps

Examples of physical traps include:

★ Animal trap, often used to obtain the fur or meat of wild animals

★ Booby trap, a mechanism designed to capture or harm unsuspecting humans or animals

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★ Punji stick

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★ Trou de loup

★ Heligoland trap, a large funnel-shaped structure used to trap birds

★ Insect trap, used to capture insects

★ Man-trap

★ Mousetrap, designed to catch mice. See also Mousetrap (disambiguation)

★ Trapdoor, a recessed (often hidden) door in a floor or ceiling

★ Sand trap, a golf bunker.

Metaphorical traps

Examples of metaphorical or conceptual traps include:

★ Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak

★ High level equilibrium trap, a concept used to explain why China never underwent an indigenous Industrial Revolution

★ Honey trap, a form of sting operation in law enforcement

★ Liquidity trap, a concept in economics involving a stagnant economy and low interest rates

★ Speed trap, a tactic designed to catch speed limit violators; it may also refer to a place where such a tactic is commonly used

★ Verbal trap, a statement or question phrased in such a way that any valid response would imply something the responder does not intend. See also Trick question

★ Welfare trap, a phenomenon by which social policies interact to keep people dependent on welfare; related concepts include the unemployment trap and poverty trap

★ Chemical trap, a chemical compound responsible for capturing an elusive molecule.

Other meanings

Other meanings of the word ''trap'' include:

★ In urban/hip hop culture a trap refers to a trap house: a place where drugs are sold; a trap can be an area or neighborhood dominated by a drug economy and culture.

★ In bodybuilding, a nickname for the trapezius muscle

★ In biochemistry, TRAP is an abbreviation for tartrate resistant acid phosphatase

★ In computing and operating systems, a trap is a programming code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are. More specifically, a processor-generated exception, usually resulting in a switch into kernel mode

★ In electronics, a filter used to block a range of frequencies

★ In geology, a rock formation in which water, salt or hydrocarbons may collect

★ In horseriding, a device which attaches a carriage to a pony

★ In role-playing games, a type of obstacle often used in dungeons

★ In the narcotics industry, an area where drugs are bought and sold in an open-air street market. People who are major drug dealers in a trap are known as "Trap Stars"

★ Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal

★ Trap (poker), a poker strategy

★ In color printing, where inks of different colours have been overlapped to mask registration problems. The process is called spreading and choking

★ Also in color printing, when one ink dries too much, which stops the following colors being absorbed into the paper. It leaves a mottled effect.

★ In shooting sports, the activity of trap shooting, a clay target shooting sport; also, specifically the Olympic Trap event; also, the device which launches the clays

★ In relationships, a member who manages to ensnare the other, through emotional or sexual manipulation, so as to prevent them from ending the relationship.

★ Trap (carriage), a light two-wheeled horse-drawn carriage

★ A meme from the internet describing a man who is intending to look like an attractive woman or a pre-op male to female transsexual. Females crossdressing as males or pre-op female to male transsexuals are often referred to as reverse traps.

★ A trap room, part of a theater.

★ In naval aviation, a trap is a shipboard arrested landing.

Related terms

★ Bot trap, a method of handling misbehaving network bots

★ Fur trapper, one who traps animals for a living

★ Neutral zone trap, a defensive strategy in ice hockey

★ Night Trap, a 1992 video game

★ ''The Parent Trap'', the title of two Disney movies

★ Penning trap, used to store charged particles

★ Polar Trappers, a 1938 Disney cartoon

★ Trapball, an old game played with a trap

★ TRAP law, a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers

★ Trap-Neuter-Return, a method of animal control

★ Trap street, a fictitious or incorrectly rendered street on a map

★ Treasure Trap, a live action role-playing game

★ Trivia Trap, a short-lived TV game show

★ Venus Flytrap, a carnivorous plant

★ Trap (novel), a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Peter Mathers

Place names

★ Deccan Traps, in west-central India

★ Wolf Trap, Virginia

★ Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, also in Virginia

People

★ Trap, nickname for Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian soccer manager

See also

★ Ambush (often called a ''trap'', as in the exclamation, "It's a trap!")

★ Trapping