Crossword-Solution: TRAP 4 letters, 734 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Trap	v. t.	To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
Trap	n.	An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
Trap	a.	Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
Trap	n.	A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
Trap	n.	Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
Trap	n.	A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
Trap	n.	The game of trapball.
Trap	n.	A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
Trap	n.	A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
Trap	n.	A wagon, or other vehicle.
Trap	n.	A kind of movable stepladder.
Trap	v. t.	To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
Trap	v. t.	Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
Trap	v. t.	To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
Trap	v. i.	To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
TRAP	anagram	ATPR, PART, PATR, PRAT, RAPT, TARP

We have 734 clues for the answer “TRAP”

Clue	Answers
"Home Alone" hazard	1 answer
"It's a ___!" ("Watch out!")	1 answer
"It's a ___!" (noted "Star Wars" meme)	1 answer
"It's a ___!" (warning)	1 answer
"Look out! It's a ___!"	1 answer
"Pigeon"-hurling device	1 answer
"Shut your ___!"	1 answer
"Shut your ___!" ("Hush up!")	1 answer
"The Parent ____"	1 answer
"The Parent ___" (1961 film)	1 answer
"The Parent ___" (1961)	1 answer
"The Parent ___": Hayley Mills film	1 answer
"The Tender ___"	1 answer
"The Tender ___" (1955)	1 answer
"The Tender ___" film remake	1 answer
"The Tender ___," 1955 song or film	1 answer
"The Tender ___," Sinatra hit	1 answer
"___ Queen" (Fetty Wap song)	1 answer
'The Parent _____ ('61 film)'	1 answer
Cunning device for catching animals	1 answer
1962 Disney film The Parent ____	1 answer
A device for catching animals	1 answer
A reporter may set it	1 answer
A thing to catch a mouse	1 answer
Acquire pelts	1 answer
Aid for catching a mouse	1 answer
Ambusher's setup	1 answer
An instrument for snaring game.	1 answer
Ant-lion pit, e.g.	1 answer
Augusta obstacle	1 answer
Bad place to end a drive	1 answer
Bad thing to walk into	1 answer
Basalt, for instance.	1 answer
Bear snare	1 answer
Bend in a sink pipe	1 answer
Bend in a sink's pipe	1 answer
Block all exits	1 answer
Box in, perhaps	1 answer
Bunker on a course	1 answer
Bunker's companion.	1 answer
Canadian Open hazard	1 answer
Capture by surprise	1 answer
Capture through deceit	1 answer
Carriage on springs.	1 answer
Carriage; snare	1 answer
Catch animals	1 answer
Catch ball on one bounce.	1 answer
Catch by stratagem	1 answer
Catch in a cage	1 answer
Catch on one bounce.	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

RETEA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with TRAP (5)

The Monkey approached carelessly and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of purposely leading him into the snare, she replied, “O Monkey, and are you, with such a mind as yours, going to be King over the Beasts?” The Horse and His Rider A HORSE SOLDIER took the utmost pains with his charger.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

What, then, were you following me?” “We thought the horse was stole.” “Well—what a thing! How very foolish of you not to know that I had taken the trap and horse.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

When the Lion came back he soon noticed the absence of the brains, and asked the Fox in a terrible voice: “What have you done with the brains?” “Brains, your Majesty! it had none, or it would never have fallen into your trap.” Wit has always an answer ready.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

The Trap of the White Sphinx “About eight or nine in the morning I came to the same seat of yellow metal from which I had viewed the world upon the evening of my arrival.

The Time Machine H. G. Wells 1992

They couldn't find any {trap door}s or any way to penetrate security of IBM's OS, so they made a site visit to an IBM office (remember, these were official military types who were purportedly on official business), swiped some IBM stationery, and created a fake patch.

The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992

Quotes with TRAP (3)

I wonder if that's how darkness wins, by convincing us to trap it inside ourselves, instead of emptying it out. I don't want it to win.

Jasmine Warga My Heart and Other Black Holes

Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions.…

Henri J.M. Nouwen

Truths are dangerous," he said." Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

Kristin Cashore Bitterblue

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,133 times in crossword archives (1917–2025).