mantrap

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I saw a woman who had a mind like a mantrap, who could recall facts like the kids I know can Google.

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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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  • I saw a woman who had a mind like a mantrap, who could recall facts like the kids I know can Google. —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • The second tour will be by Equinix, Inc., a global data center services company, and feature football field-sized rooms that show biometric hand geometry scanners, mantrap series of interlocking doors, and Internet data that passes through miles of wires above your head.
  • Anyway, tell us all about your newest mantrap or secret storage space. —  Homeland Stupidity
  • A Hobart restaurant has had its mantrap pilfered. —  National Nine News
  • You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander, says I. —  Ulysses
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