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trap
noun- the mouth UK, 1776
- “Shut yer trap or I’ll lay one on it!” Calico shouted angrily. — Chester Gould, Dick Tracy Meets the Night Crawler, p. 192, 1945
- I’m worried about you shotting off your big trap. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, pp. 114–115, 1947
- From now, Patterson resolved, I’ll just keep my trap shut. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 72, 1960
- Take your feet off my chair and shut your trap. — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, p. 21, 1967
- “Shut your trap,” he screams at him and turns back to Murphy. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 36, 1972
- Not if you guys keep your traps shut. — Oscar Zeta Acosta, The Revolt of the Cockroach People, p. 144, 1973
- Keep your trap shut, you’ll be fine. — The Full Monty, 1997
- a police officer AUSTRALIA, 1812
Now only historical. - Chilla returned the Traps’ fire, like Ned Kelly in the old Glenrowan Hotel[.] — Frank Hardy, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, p. 230, 1971
- Wendlan’s a police pimp. He’s talking to the traps. — Bob Ellis and Anne Brooksbank, Mad Dog Morgan, p. 15, 1976
- a prostitute’s earnings US
A shortened form of TRAP MONEY- After I’d been checking her trap for over a week she said she wanted to be my woman. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 142, 1973
- For the first time in the week since she’d been hooking she hadn’t made her trap. — Alix Shulman, On the Stroll, p. 110, 1981
- an electronic device that records the originating telephone number of all incoming calls US
A term and practice made obsolete with the advent of the “caller ID” feature on telephones in the late 1990s. - Course they never say who it is, but we had Southern Bell put a trap on the line. It tells what number they’re calling from, so then they look up to see where the phone’s located. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 218, 1991
- a hiding place for illegal drugs US
- — Ruth Bronsteen, The Hippy’s Handbook, p. 16, 1967
- a residence US
- We go up to her trap, and she remove the dry goods. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, p. 119, 1957
- a timing light at the finish line of a drag race US
- After a very good run you might hear the announcer say, " ... and folks, he went through the traps at 256.86 miles per hour." — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 56, 1970
- in poker, a deceptive bet US
- — John Scarne, Scarne’s Guide to Modern Poker, p. 292, 1979
- a place where illegal drugs are bought and sold US
- — The Kansas City Star, p. D10, 13 December 2004
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