Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A structure or situation involving imminent risk of death; a place dangerous to life.
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Examples
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The driver of the vehicle said that it was becoming a death-trap.
Paul Yeager: Storm Chasers: The Science Is Not Worth the Danger Paul Yeager 2011
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I find out three things this evening: 1. There are worse things than staying with your best friend and her grandmother in a death-trap Chevrolet, weaving or no weaving.
Glimpse Carol Lynch Williams 2010
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The audience is harangued – as if we were army recruits – on Afghanistan's inhospitable terrain, its death-trap mountains and deserts.
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Nobody had believed it likely, and he had not more than half favored it himself; but it is good, even when the next step may lead into a death-trap, to see one's first opinions confirmed.
In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010
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A splendid lurking-place, in fact, provided it was never found; Gallantin had found it, and so it had become a death-trap.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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I find out three things this evening: 1. There are worse things than staying with your best friend and her grandmother in a death-trap Chevrolet, weaving or no weaving.
Glimpse Carol Lynch Williams 2010
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Up on the satellite, Batman continues working, sure that his friends are walking into a death-trap!
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I can't wait to see how Conan will inadvertently kill all his friends with a quickly jimmied up death-trap. exorcissy
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Camoed Rambo appears, sets up that crude sprung-loaded, sharp-staked, death-trap - attatched subtley to the traffic light's bole, and as the shoaler passes me I cross myself before fully enjoying the triggered screams and arterial spurting.
The Indignity of Commuting by Bicycle: Shoals of Idiocy BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Maybe the NHS wasn't the death-trap I had imagined?
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