trapper

English

Etymology

trap + -er

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹæpɚ/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)

Noun

trapper (plural trappers)

  1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
    • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:
      The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.
  2. (mining) A (usually, child) worker 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. See also trap house.
    • 2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos:
      Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live
  5. (slang) A performer of trap music.

Derived terms

Translations

Danish

Noun

trapper c

  1. indefinite plural of trappe

Dutch

Etymology

From trappen + -er.

Pronunciation

  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɑpər

Noun

trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)

  1. bicycle pedal
    Synonym: pedaal

French

Etymology

From trappe + -er.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Verb

trapper

  1. to trap (hunt using traps)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trapper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trapper f

  1. indefinite plural of trapp
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