A trap is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience a human or animal intruder, an animal pest, or a game. Traps may be physical objects, such as cages or snares, or metaphorical concepts.
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Physical traps
Examples of physical traps include:
- Animal traps, see Animal trapping, often used to obtain the fur or meat of wild animals
- Booby trap, a mechanism designed to capture or harm unsuspecting humans or animals
- Punji stick
- Trou de loup
- Heligoland trap, a large funnel-shaped structure used to trap birds
- Insect trap, used to capture insects
- Man-trap
- Mousetrap, designed to catch mice. See also Mousetrap (disambiguation)
- Trapdoor, a recessed (often hidden) door in a floor or ceiling
- Sand trap, a golf bunker.
Metaphorical traps
Examples of metaphorical or conceptual traps include:
- Canary trap, a method for exposing an information leak
- Chess trap, a move intended to induce the opponent to blunder
- 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
- Chemical trap, a chemical compound responsible for capturing an elusive molecule.
Other meanings
Other meanings of the word trap include: .
- In bodybuilding, a nickname for the trapezius muscle
- In biochemistry, TRAP is an abbreviation for tartrate resistant acid phosphatase
- In computing and operating systems, a trap is a 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
- Traps, a common name for elevated topographic features made out of basalt, an igneous rock
- Traprock, a common name for basalt, an igneous rock
- 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 anime culture, a male crossdresser whose cross-dressing is so convincing that he is often mistaken for a real girl.
- The term has since migrated to internet culture, describing a man who looks like an attractive woman or a pre-operation male to female transsexual. Females crossdressing as males or pre-op female to male transsexuals are often referred to as reverse traps.
- 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"
- Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
- Trap (poker), a poker strategy
- In color printing, where inks of different colours have been overlapped to mask registration problems. The process is called spreading and choking
- 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
- Trap (carriage),
- a light two- or four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage
- a similar early automobile
- A trap room, part of a theater
- In music, "the traps" is a slang term for a drum kit, or a similar collection of percussion instruments
- Trap run, an American football play


























