English Dictionary

trap

/tɹæp/

noun

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.

Be careful not to fall into the trap.

意味（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.

I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.

意味（2）

A 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.

意味（3）

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck.

意味（4）

(now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

There is likewise a cabin trap with five steps.

意味（5）

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

意味（6）

The game of trapball itself.

意味（7）

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap.

意味（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.

意味（9）

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

意味（10）

(aviation, military, slang) A 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.

意味（11）

(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

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.

意味（12）

(slang) A person's mouth.

Keep your trap shut.

意味（13）

(slang, archaic) A policeman.

“He hung about, not to come over here afore dark, but he’ll be here soon,” replied Chitling. “There’s nowhere else to go to now, for the people at the Cripples are all in custody, and the bar of the ken—I went up there and see it with my own eyes—is filled with traps.”

意味（14）

(in the plural) Belongings.

...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)...

意味（15）

(slang) A 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.

意味（16）

(sports) Trapshooting.

意味（17）

(geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.

意味（18）

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

意味（19）

(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

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.

意味（20）

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

trap phone

意味（21）

(slang, informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes derogatory) Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.

And trust me you don't want to see a trap ether. I like my girls without a ding-a-ling.

意味（22）

(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, josou.

One way to spot a trap is to look for an adam's apple.

意味（23）

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

意味（24）

(slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

The money clip held thirty-nine hundred dollars, combined with her trap money, she had five thousand dollars for her man.

意味（25）

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

Maybe T.I was also making connection between fur trapping and living in the trap, or the hood.