trap

trap

1. slang One's mouth. You'd better keep your trap shut if you know what's good for you! I decided to close my trap after she shot me that withering look.
2. The trapezius muscle. Usually referred to in pairs. He had incredibly well defined traps and lats. I think I pulled the trap on my right side during that exercise.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

trap

1. n. the mouth. (Crude.) Put this in your trap and chew it up.
2. n. a low place; a dive. This trap is a mess. Clean it up!

traps

n. the trapezium muscles, considered in pairs. (Bodybuilding.) This exercise is really good for your traps.
See also: trap
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • (as) sharp as a steel trap
  • avoid the trap of (doing something)
  • be trapped in a time warp
  • bear trap
  • death trap
  • fall into
  • fall into a trap
  • fall into the trap
  • fall into the trap of (doing something)
  • fall into/avoid the trap of doing something
  • fly out of the traps
  • fly trap
  • fox trap
  • have a mind as sharp as a steel trap
  • have a mind like a steel trap
  • honey trap
  • lay (something) for (someone or something)
  • mind like a steel trap, have a
  • race out of the traps
  • rattle-trap
  • set a trap
  • set a trap (for someone or something)
  • Shut your face!
  • shut your mouth/trap/face/gob!
  • shut your trap
  • Shut your trap!
  • speed trap
  • spring a trap
  • spring a/the trap
  • storm out of the traps
  • the only free cheese is in the mousetrap
  • thirst trap
  • tourist trap
  • trap
  • trap (someone or something) in (something)
  • trap (someone or something) into (something)
  • trap in
  • trap into
  • traps
  • Zip your trap!
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Pc Mark Goulding, wildlife and environmental crime officer at South Wales Police, said: "While it is not an offence to possess a gin trap, it is however a banned trap to set under Section 8 of the Pests Act 1954."
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Getting the drift: examining the effects of timing, trap type and taxon on herpetofaunal drift fence surveys.
An effective method for increasing the catch-rate of pitfall traps
The trap had broKen the bone and the teeth of the trap were nearly meeting.
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I do agree that some people do not use traps properly and doing such is cruel, but when used correctly they are a humane tool.
Using traps to protect your investments
A gin trap similar to the one found at Kenfig National Nature Reserve
Animal trap found at nature reserve
During trap checks, the contents of each trap cup were strained using a paper paint filter.
Alternative survey methods for the emerald ash borer
The gist is that you create a hole or small structure with a single opening that your target animal won't be able to resist investigating, and set your trap in front of the bait.
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To determine factors that influenced trap saturation, the following parameters were quantified for each hour of observation of video recordings: 1) the number of American lobsters entering, escaping, and surrounding the traps and 2) the accumulated catch.
Underwater video surveillance of American lobsters (Homarus americanus) to understand saturation levels in lobster traps
Material examined.--CAR, Komassa, UV trap 05VIII.1966 ([male]) (Collector M.
Diversity of mantids (Dictyoptera: Mantodea) of Sangha-Mbaere Region, Central African Republic, with some ecological data and DNA barcoding
A total of 1650 trap nights (25 groups of 3 traps each night for 22 nights) resulted in 96 individual animals captured during the study.
Influence of scent and season on Sherman live trap captures of Peromyscus
When saturation occurs, the number of insects in a trap does not accurately represent the number of entries into the trap, resulting in an underestimate of the population.
Sticky traps saturate with navel orangeworm in a nonlinear fashion
Carnivorous pitcher plant traps rarely catch much, but their lackadaisical hunting turns out not to be so lame after all.
Fairly bad pitcher traps triumph in the end
Skylanders Trap Team Revolutionizes the Gaming Industry, Offering the Full AAA Console Experience on Both Tablet and Console -- for the First Time Ever
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There are currently two different varieties of trap distributed by ADFSC -- a pheromone trap and a light trap.
14,000 pest control traps distributed in Capital
In the second strategy, arrays of weirs or dams are used to trap cells as they move through a fluidic device under hydrodynamic forces.
Parameter screening in microfluidics based hydrodynamic single-cell trapping