trap house
Americannoun
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Slang. a place where illicit drugs are bought, sold, or used.
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a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.
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. )
Example Sentences
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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 Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
In the first trap house McTaggart had placed as bait the hindquarter of a snowshoe rabbit.
From Baree, Son of Kazan by Curwood, James Oliver
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