trap house

American  

[trap haus] / ˈtræp ˌhaʊs /

Or traphouse

noun

• trap houses
  plural

1. Slang. a place where illicit drugs are bought, sold, or used.

2. a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• trap houses
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of trap house

First recorded in 1940–45 (trapshooting shelter); and in 2005–10 (place to buy drugs, with reference to drugs as an inescapable “trap”); trap ¹ ( def. ) + house ( def. )

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

trap house

In the first trap house McTaggart had placed as bait the hindquarter of a snowshoe rabbit.

From Baree, Son of Kazan by James Oliver Curwood

Plant this in the back of your bear trap house and you have one of the best inducements for a bear to catch.

From Mink Trapping A Book of Instruction Giving Many Methods of Trapping—A Valuable Book for Trappers. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

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