mantrap

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  1. noun A trap set to catch trespassers or poachers.
  2. noun Slang A woman considered dangerously seductive and scheming.

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  • Being caught thus by one foot in Roosevelt's mantrap, he quickly proceeded to be caught by the other. —  Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography
  • The four of them moved into the tiny mantrap and Avery pushed a set of numbers on the combination lock on the second door. —  The Black Echo
  • If so, he would be a board-room opponent as wicked as a mantrap among the daisies. —  Slay Ride
  • When he swung clear Fors made fast the rope and hurried back to pull the limp body away from the edge of the fiendish mantrap. —  Daybreak 2250 AD
  • She wants to turn me into some kind of mantrap. —  The Pull of the Moon
 

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