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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.
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Physical traps
Image:Rabbit trap.jpg Examples of physical, usually mechanical, 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.
- Heligoland trap, a large funnel-shaped structure used to trap birds.
- Insect trap, used to capture insects.
- Man-traps
- Mousetrap, designed to catch mice. See also Mousetrap (disambiguation).
- Trapdoor, a recessed (often hidden) door in a floor or ceiling.
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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.
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Other meanings
Template:Wiktionary Other meanings of the word trap include:
- In bodybuilding, a nickname for the trapezius muscle.
- In computing, 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".
- In plumbing, a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal.
- 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.
- Among Horse-drawn vehicles it is a light two-wheeled carriage.
- In hip hop culture, the term trap, popularized by the likes of T.I. and Young Jeezy, means selling cocaine.
- In hip hop culture, trap is the location where drugs, primarily cocaine, are sold.
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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, 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.
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Place names
- Deccan Traps, in west-central India
- Wolf Trap, Virginia
- Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, also in Virginia
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