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
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 Charles Foster Kent
In a short time neither man, woman, nor child would darken his door; all avoided him and his fixtures as they would a spring-gun or man-trap.
From Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
I must add that this garden, with its low wall, has been a perfect man-trap.
From Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth by Alice Morse Earle
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 Richard Jefferies
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