Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An unsafe building or other structure.
- noun A perilous circumstance or situation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An extremely dangerous location, structure or device.
- noun A
plot device where avillain in a story puts ahero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadisticmurder .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed
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Examples
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A through ticket by way of Nicaragua also cost less and, perhaps as important as everything else, Nicaragua was not known as a deathtrap.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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A through ticket by way of Nicaragua also cost less and, perhaps as important as everything else, Nicaragua was not known as a deathtrap.
The Path Between the Seas DAVID McCULLOUGH. 2005
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Kans., is known as a deathtrap for shock absorbers, while the pockmarked I-5 south of
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They blamed "deathtrap" used cars (whose only real threat, of course, was to prices of new cars).
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The Surplus People Project, monitoring resettlement camps, described it as a "deathtrap".
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A Broadway office building that was illegally converted into high-end housing and that's been called a "deathtrap" managed to fly under the radar of the city's Buildings Department for at least five years -- even though inspectors were called to the property four times since
NY Post: News By TOM TOPOUSIS 2010
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Bangkok nightclub fire: Inquiry into why 'deathtrap' had just one exit
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USA Today said Wednesday officials described the lightly armored vehicle as a "deathtrap" even when retrofitted with a mine-resistant kit developed in the mid-1990s.
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WASHINGTON - Army and Marine Corps officials knew nearly a decade before the invasion of Iraq that its workhorse Humvee vehicle, was a "deathtrap" even with armor added to protect it against roadside bombs, according to an inspector general's report.
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WASHINGTON - Army and Marine Corps officials knew nearly a decade before the invasion of Iraq that its workhorse Humvee vehicle was a "deathtrap" ...
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