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Plural of trapper

regular plural

The plural of trapper is trappers.

Forms of trapper

Singulartrapper /ˈtɹæpɚ/
Pluraltrappers
Countablecountable

Trappers in a sentence

  • Some of these here beaver trappers are the most uncertainest fellers ever—cuz they’ll argeefie about near anything.1996 November, Terry C[onrad] Johnston, chapter 12, in Buffalo Palace, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 211. From the entry uncertainest
  • Prior to the gold rush era, it is likely that early day trappers traveled the corridor.1991, Robin Rose, “Appendix C: Resource Assessment: North Powder National Wild and Scenic River. USDA, Forest Service, Wallowa-Whitman…. From the entry driveway
  • “Here are those trappers, lady, well trained and stout of heart, In woodcraft wise, in gamecraft wise, their lives at my behest.”2013, Caroline A. F. Rhys Davids, Stories of the Buddha: Being Selections from the Jataka, page 171. From the entry gamecraft
  • Ee climbed through t' window at Cat n' Fiddle, skanked a couple o' bottles o' whisky, an' jumped straight out int' arms o' trappers.2012, Mark Hodder, Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon. From the entry skank
  • By that route, a Texas river that French trappers had named Purgatoire became the Picketwire, and the Malay word kampong became the English word compound.2003, Jan Venolia, The Right Word!, page 4. From the entry hobson-jobson

Meaning of trapper

  1. noun One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
  2. noun A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
  3. noun An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.

Full definition of trapper

Questions about the plural of trapper

What is the plural of trapper?
The plural of trapper is trappers.
Is trapper countable?
Trapper is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: trapper (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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