man-trap
or man·trap
an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.
Slang. a woman who is purported to be dangerously seductive or who schemes in her amours; femme fatale.
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How to use man-trap in a sentence
One man was at home with a leg supposed to be wounded by a fall on the slippery roadsbut really, by a man-trap in the woods.
The White Peacock | D. H. (David Herbert) LawrenceI was going on to add that I had expected to find Raffles there before me, to settle a wager that we had made about the man-trap.
A Thief in the Night | E. W. HornungCommandingly he repeated them to cabby peeping down through his pygmy man-trap in the roof, and away went the two-wheeler.
A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike | Charles KingWell, I guess I know enough to turn you inside out, old gal—you sockdologizing old man-trap.
Our American Cousin | Tom TaylorThis hole or well was about ten feet deep, with a sort of man-trap at the bottom.
British Dictionary definitions for mantrap
/ (ˈmænˌtræp) /
a snare for catching people, esp trespassers
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