tourist trap

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a place, as a restaurant, shop, or hotel, that exploits tourists by overcharging.

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How to use tourist trap in a sentence

This strip is overpopulated with tourist traps, such as mini-golf courses, scooter rental spots, souvenir shops and eateries.
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Its graceful hotels and beautiful restaurants are totally dependent on the tourist trade.
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It is the only tourist center Ukraine has left on the Black Sea, since Russia annexed Crimea last spring.
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For the Brogpas, transforming into a tourist attraction may offer their community a way to generate much-needed income.
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The two islands are now tourist sites for visitors from Taiwan and mainland China.
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Not all Israeli gay propaganda is pinkwashing—a lot of it is good, old-fashioned PR to attract gay tourist dollars to Tel Aviv.
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Sometimes the animal was caught in a trap which was nothing less than a hut of logs with a single entrance.
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Haggard had disappeared with the celerity of a harlequin who jumps through a trap.
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A patch of light fell clear on the side of the trap, and on Longcluse's ungloved hand as he leaned on it.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
A trap-door had opened in the floor of his consciousness; his first, early love sheltered in his aching heart again.
The Wave|Algernon Blackwood
But if they all pick up the broadcast that this is where to get a free ride home, I'll have just another sand trap here.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe

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