trap

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

A cubicle (in a public toilet).

A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

To leave suddenly, to flee.

Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.

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

The trapezius muscle.

A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.

A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

To provide with a trap.

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.

To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.

To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

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