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honeytrap

honeytrap is the alternative spelling 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 honeytrap

Noun
pluralhoneytraps
Verb
third-person singular presenthoneytraps
present participlehoneytrapping
past participlehoneytrapped
pasthoneytrapped

Questions about honeytrap

What is honeytrap the alternative spelling of?
Honeytrap is the alternative spelling of honey trap.

Words near honeytrap in the dictionary

  1. honeysucks
  2. honeysweet
  3. honeysweets
  4. honeytoken
  5. honeytokens
  6. honeytrap
  7. honeytrapped
  8. honeytrapper
  9. honeytrappers
  10. honeytrapping
  11. honeytraps

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Adapted from Wiktionary: honeytrap (page history and authors); honey trap (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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