man-trap

or man·trap

[man-trap]

noun

an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
Slang. a woman who is purported to be dangerously seductive or who schemes in her amours; femme fatale.

Origin of man-trap

First recorded in 1765–75

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Historical Examples of man-trap

Doggone it, a bachelor never has any such a man-trap around in a fellow's road.
Chip, of the Flying U
B. M. Bower
"You got me out of that man-trap of yours," Jerry continued.
Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930
Various
The man-trap which he had set would not now fail through Dea's obstinacy.
"Unto Caesar"
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Old Fulcher had not got far into the car before he put his foot into a man-trap.
The Romany Rye
George Borrow
You might both have got ten years for fixing a man-trap, to wit, a lethal engine.
Number Seventeen
Louis Tracy