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honey-trap

honey-trap is the alternative form of honey trap.

Meaning of honey trap

Noun

honey trap (plural honey traps)

  1. (idiomatic) The use of a romantic or a sexual relationship to entice a person into revealing secret information.
    • “Some girl had made a fool of him,” said Connie with great contempt. “The Dutch set him a honey trap, my dear, and he barged in with his eyes wide shut.”1974, John le Carré, chapter 12, in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, →ISBN

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Forms of honey-trap

pluralhoney-traps

Questions about honey-trap

What is honey-trap the alternative form of?
Honey-trap is the alternative form of honey trap.

Words near honey-trap in the dictionary

  1. honey-pot ant
  2. honey-pot ants
  3. honey-sweet
  4. honey-sweetest
  5. honey-tongued
  6. honey-trap
  7. honey-traps
  8. honeybadger
  9. honeybadgers
  10. honeybag
  11. honeybags

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