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trap street

trap street noun: a fictitious or inaccurately represented street on a map, inserted as a means of detecting plagiarism.

Noun

trap street (plural trap streets)

  1. A fictitious or inaccurately represented street on a map, inserted as a means of detecting plagiarism.
    • Trap streets are used as a weapon in corporate warfare, but in certain circumstances, trap streets can be used to fight a different kind of battle. Molly Metropolis certainly understood the importance of trap streets, and as she constructed her map of real train lines and paper ones, she included...2015, Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network, Melville House, →ISBN

Forms of trap street

pluraltrap streets

Questions about trap street

What does trap street mean?
Trap street means a fictitious or inaccurately represented street on a map, inserted as a means of detecting plagiarism.
What part of speech is trap street?
Trap street is a noun.
What is the plural of trap street?
The plural of trap street is trap streets.

Words near trap street in the dictionary

  1. trap sets
  2. trap shoot
  3. trap shooting
  4. trap shoots
  5. trap stairs
  6. trap street
  7. trap streets
  8. trap yard
  9. trap yards
  10. trap-bath split
  11. trap-door

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