- a variation of man-trap.
mantrap
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The love-lorn Lucy, trekking from Wales to see him, falls into a steel mantrap and breaks her leg; though two days later she is fit enough for a spree in Bath.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2017
The mantrap that ensnares Alice, however, is not poverty or adultery but Alzheimer’s disease, which snaps into her without mercy.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 12, 2015
However, as long as no one hunted them or set a mantrap to ensnare them, as is sometimes the case, they probably found something to eat and survived another day.
From Scientific American ● May 19, 2013
Then the moat was filled with water lifted from the river by paddle-wheel scoop, and last week water lilies floated above the mantrap of bamboo spikes.
From Time Magazine Archive
And it’s called a Mars mantrap as a joke comparing it to the Venus flytraps of the known world.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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