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trappers

trappers is the plural of trapper.

Meaning of trapper

Noun

trapper (plural trappers)

  1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
    • The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189
  2. (historical) 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. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
  4. (slang) A drug dealer.
    • Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos
  5. (slang) A performer of trap music.
  6. Synonym of catcher.
    Synonyms:
    catcher

Phrases with trappers

Questions about trappers

What is trappers the plural of?
Trappers is the plural of trapper.

Words near trappers in the dictionary

  1. trapped out
  2. trapped-out
  3. trapper
  4. trapper hat
  5. trapper hats
  6. trappers
  7. Trappes
  8. trappest
  9. trappeth
  10. trappier
  11. trappiest

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