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sucker traps

sucker traps is the plural of sucker trap.

Meaning of sucker trap

Noun

sucker trap (plural sucker traps)

  1. (informal) A scam; a fraudulent deal offered to the unwary.
    • 'At this time of the year, Florida's the biggest sucker-trap on earth. On the East Coast they fleece the millionaires. Where we're going they just take it off the little man. Serves him right, of course. He goes there to die. He can't take it with him.'1954, Ian Fleming, “The Everglades”, in Live and Let Die, London: Pan Books, published 1957, page 119

Questions about sucker traps

What is sucker traps the plural of?
Sucker traps is the plural of sucker trap.

Words near sucker traps in the dictionary

  1. sucker punches
  2. sucker punching
  3. Sucker State
  4. sucker tracks
  5. sucker trap
  6. sucker traps
  7. sucker's payoff
  8. sucker-punch
  9. sucker-punched
  10. sucker-punches
  11. Suckerberg

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