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
Chesterton seized the opportunity, being mildly rebuked by a Socialist paper, to declare that the Fabians "are constructing a man-trap."
From G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by West, Julius
When he sees that one or two of his companions are 19 lost by the big man-trap, he takes good care never to go near it himself.”
From The Rambles of a Rat by A. L. O. E.
It should rather, however, be said, the inventor of the particular form of man-trap of which this found in the keeper's out-house was a specimen.
From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas
The man-trap which he had set would not now fail through Dea's obstinacy.
From "Unto Caesar" by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
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