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Plural of trap

regular plural

The plural of trap is traps.

Forms of trap

Singulartrap /tɹæp/
Pluraltraps /tɹæps/
Countablecountable and uncountable

Traps in a sentence

  • I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem.
  • Of course Kei would look like a young woman, that's how traps work!2010 July 20, Antonio E. Gonzalez, “Re:Moyashimon Live Action”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)
  • I don't think he's clean, look at those traps.From the entry clean
  • Penning traps can be used to store antiprotons.From the entry Penning trap
  • Instagays should really just stick with thirst traps instead of jokes and memes..2026 June 23, u/Glittering-Effect64, “Gay✈️Irl”, in r/gay_irl (Reddit post), archived from the original on 23 Jun 2026. From the entry Instagay

Meaning of trap

  1. noun A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
  2. noun A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
  3. noun A (usually fictional) location or feature originally added to a map to detect plagiarism and copyright violations by other map makers or map services.

Full definition of trap

Questions about the plural of trap

What is the plural of trap?
The plural of trap is traps.
Is trap countable?
Trap is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trap (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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