Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
trap .
Etymologies
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Examples
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That said, sporting clays, with its many falling targets, its high towers and rising, traplike presentations, makes excellent practice for all three types of waterfowl shooting.
3 Shots at Waterfowl 2002
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That said, sporting clays, with its many falling targets, its high towers and rising, traplike presentations, makes excellent practice for all three types of waterfowl shooting.
3 Shots at Waterfowl 2002
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He had learned long ago not to put his hand inside the traplike opening of the steel Missive Receptacle outside the gnome's office.
The Dragons of Krynn Weis, Margaret 1994
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Up out of the traplike stair-opening came the head of Mrs. Kantor, disheveled and a smudge of soot across her face, but beneath her arm, triumphant, a violin of one string and a broken back.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928
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And wrinkles -- wrinkles wheresoever there was room for them: across the forehead that lost itself in shining yellow scalp; under the eyes, down the cheeks, about the traplike mouth.
Bunker Bean Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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You go into Montreal for a game with the high-flying, no-D Habs and they're playing the exact same traplike system as the defense first, last, and always Minnesota Wild.
unknown title 2008
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