rat-trap
Britishnoun
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a device for catching rats
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informal a type of bicycle pedal having serrated steel foot pads and a toe clip
Example Sentences
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Man saves one-legged owl 'caught in rat trap'
From BBC • Dec. 4, 2023
The fool carries a black bag whose contents include, in addition to the goat’s bladder, a creepy doll, fake dog poop, a rat trap and an antique hand grenade.
From Washington Post • Aug. 3, 2017
He had divided his neighborhood into a grid and was organizing the community to get a rat trap into every hundred-square-metre block.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 15, 2014
They played many one-night stands in “every rat trap and chicken coop in the Middle West,” he said, often receiving equal billing with trained seals, dogs and illusionists.
From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2012
“Pretty good kind of a rat trap, I’d say,” Mrs. Fitzgibbon remarked.
From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien
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