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trap streets

trap streets is the plural of trap street.

Meaning of trap street

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

Questions about trap streets

What is trap streets the plural of?
Trap streets is the plural of trap street.

Words near trap streets in the dictionary

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

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