A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.

A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

(by extension, cartography, law, technical) A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

(now rare) A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.

The game of trapball itself.

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

(aviation, military, slang) A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

(slang) A person's mouth.

(slang) Synonym of vagina

(slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).

(sports) Trapshooting.

(geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

(Australia, slang, historical) A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular, also attributive) An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

(music, uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

(slang, informal, sometimes offensive, sometimes derogatory) Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.

(slang, informal, sometimes considered offensive) A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.

(slang, uncountable) The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

(slang, bodybuilding, anatomy) The trapezius muscle.

(transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

(transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

(transitive) To provide with a trap.

(intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; to travel for the purpose of trapping.

(aviation, military, slang, intransitive) To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.

(US, slang, informal, African-American Vernacular, intransitive) To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

(computing, intransitive) To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

(slang, informal, sometimes offensive) Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.

To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).