man-trap
Americannoun
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an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
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Slang. a woman who is purported to be dangerously seductive or who schemes in her amours; femme fatale.
Etymology
Origin of man-trap
First recorded in 1765–75
Example Sentences
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A man-trap involves bulletproof glass doors that control the entrance to the bank.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 11, 2016
Thus ended the episode of Percy FitzPercy—his man-trap.
From No Man's Land by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
The narrator was not the owner of the man-trap described previously.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard
Commandingly he repeated them to cabby peeping down through his pygmy man-trap in the roof, and away went the two-wheeler.
From A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike by King, Charles
It's a man-trap, and a hand-cuff, the parish stocks and a leg-lock, all in gold and all in one.
From Charles Dickens as a Reader by Kent, Charles Foster
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