<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a contrivance used for catching game or other animals, as a mechanical device that springs shut suddenly.</li><li>any device, stratagem, trick, or the like for catching a person unawares.</li><li>any of various devices for removing undesirable substances from a moving fluid, vapor, etc., as water from steam or cinders from coal gas.</li><li>an arrangement in a pipe, as a double curve or a U-shaped section, in which liquid remains and forms a seal for preventing the passage or escape of air or of gases through the pipe from behind or below.</li><li>traps, the percussion instruments of a jazz or dance band.</li><li>trap music.</li><li>a device for hurling clay pigeons into the air.</li><li>baseball: an act or instance of trapping a ball.</li><li>football: a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage into the backfield and is then blocked out from the side, allowing the ball-carrier to run through the opening in the line.</li><li>a network of interlinked stations, services, communications, etc., covering a region or country.</li><li>slang: mouth: Keep your trap shut.</li><li>a carriage, especially a light, two-wheeled one.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to catch or entangle in or as if in a net; enmesh.</li><li>to form with meshes, as a net.</li><li>to catch by stratagem, artifice, or trickery.</li><li>to furnish or set with traps.</li><li>to stop and hold by a trap, as air in a pipe.</li><li>to catch (a ball) as or immediately after it hits the ground.</li><li>to execute a trap against (a defensive player).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to set traps for game.</li><li>to engage in the business of trapping animals for their furs.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>