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bear trap

bear trap is the alternative form of beartrap.

Meaning of beartrap

Noun

beartrap (plural beartraps)

  1. A large trap used to catch a bear or other mammal, usually as a foot trap.
  2. A radar trap used by police to catch speeders.
  3. A device that traps a probe on a rotorcraft, securing it to the helicopter deck of a vessel.
  4. A system of rotorcraft recovery aboard watercraft in heavy sea states, which uses the beartrap device to land securely and transport the aircraft into the hangar.
  5. A temporary price fallback that tempts one to open a short position.

Forms of bear trap

pluralbear traps

Questions about bear trap

What is bear trap the alternative form of?
Bear trap is the alternative form of beartrap.

Words near bear trap in the dictionary

  1. bear tamer
  2. bear tamers
  3. bear the bell
  4. bear the brunt
  5. bear the scars
  6. bear trap
  7. bear traps
  8. bear up
  9. bear upon
  10. Bear Valley
  11. Bear Valley Springs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bear trap (page history and authors); beartrap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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