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TRAP

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

TRAP is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

TRAPS-s 2 TRAPPING-ping 11 TRAPPED-ped 5

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TRAPPINGS 11
noun
  1. countableuncountableA 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.
    • I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
  2. countableuncountableA 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. broadlycountableuncountableA (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.
    • trap street
  4. countablederogatoryinformaloffensiveslangsometimesuncountableusuallySomeone with male-typical anatomy who passes as female.
  5. countableinformalslanguncountableA 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, josou.
  6. countableuncountableAn exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
  7. countableuncountableAny device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
    • They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.
  8. countableuncountableA covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
    • Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.
  9. archaiccountableuncountableA kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.
  10. countableuncountableA place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
  11. countableuncountableA geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.
  12. countableuncountableA wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.
  13. countableuncountableThe game of trapball itself.
  14. USalsoattributivecountableslanguncountableA vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
    • trap phone
    • trap car
  15. USalsoattributivecountableslanguncountableAn area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.
  16. uncountableA genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.
  17. countableslanguncountableA 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.
  18. countablehistoricaluncountableA light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
    • a horse and trap
  19. countableslanguncountableA person's mouth.
    • Keep your trap shut.
  20. countableslanguncountableSynonym of vagina.
  21. archaiccountableslanguncountableA policeman.
  22. archaiccountableuncountableBelongings.
  23. countableslanguncountableA 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.
  24. countableuncountableTrapshooting.
  25. AustraliacountablehistoricalslanguncountableA mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
  26. slanguncountableThe money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.
  27. countableuncountableA dark coloured igneous rock; (now usually) any nongranitic igneous rock.
  28. slangThe trapezius muscle.
verb
  1. transitiveTo physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
    • to trap foxes
  2. transitiveTo ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
    • Be careful not to trap your finger in the door.
  3. transitiveTo provide with a trap.
    • to trap a drain
    • to trap a sewer pipe
  4. intransitiveTo set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.
    • trap for beaver
    • They trapped north along the river.
  5. intransitiveslangTo 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. intransitiveTo leave suddenly, to flee.
  7. intransitiveTo capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
  8. datedTo attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.
  9. informaloffensiveslangsometimesOf a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.
  10. intransitiveslangTo sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.
  11. To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).