Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A trap set to catch trespassers or poachers.
- noun Slang A sexually aggressive woman who has multiple male sexual partners and is considered to be scheming or manipulative.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A spring-trap or other engine for catching trespassers and marauders.
- noun Anything, such as an open hatchway on shipboard, or an insecure building, ladder, etc., likely to become the cause of injury or death to the unwary.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A trap for catching trespassers.
- noun A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any
device used to physicallyentrap humans
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a trap for catching trespassers
- noun a very attractive or seductive looking woman
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Examples
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The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners.
June 2006 2006
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The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners.
06/21/2006 2006
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He placed a pencil between the strips and slid it along to the end, between the two jagged steel jaws of the "mantrap", which were each connected to three tiny pistons.
Country of the Blind Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1997
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The answer to the acrostic is "mantrap"; the missing rhyme is "mishap."
Marge Askinforit Barry Pain 1896
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But don't assume mantrap Brenda has the upper hand here.
General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down 2010
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Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap.
Mark Kermode's DVD round-up Mark Kermode 2010
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Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.”
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[Logan Note: When I broke the story about West moving to Y&R, I referred to Carly as a "nutjob" and caught hell from several outraged fans who seem to think that Carly — a hyper-neurotic, self-destructive mantrap whose history includes fraud, bigamy, theft, drugging people and purposely inducing her own early labor — is apparently rather normal!]
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Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.”
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Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.”
madmouth commented on the word mantrap
I'm not leaving you alone with that blonde mantrap!
April 11, 2009
dailyword commented on the word mantrap
There was an early "Star Trek." episode named this.
September 13, 2012
bilby commented on the word mantrap
a woman's commodity - Grose, 'Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue', London, 1785.
June 26, 2022