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
One man was at home with a leg supposed to be wounded by a fall on the slippery roads—but really, by a man-trap in the woods.
From The White Peacock by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
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
About the worst man-trap there is in low water, they say.
From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Hough, Emerson
Melbury, not suspecting the presence of Fitzpiers, coupled this account with the man-trap and the scream; he could not understand what it all meant; but the sinister event of the trap made him follow on.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
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