Trap

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A trap is a device used for trapping animals.

Trap or TRAP may also refer to:

Art and entertainment

Films and television

  • Trap (2015 film), Filipino film
  • Trap (2024 film), an American thriller by M. Night Shyamalan
  • Traps (1994 film), Australian film by Pauline Chan
  • A Trap (1997), Polish film
  • Trap (TV series), a 2019 South Korean television series
  • Traps (TV series), a 1994 American police family drama

Music

  • Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s in the Southeastern United States
  • Trap music (EDM), a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the 2010s
  • Trap (EP), debut by Henry, 2013
  • Trap (Dead Man Ray album), 2000
  • "Trap" (Shakira song) (feat. Maluma), 2018
  • "Trap", a song by Elizaveta from Messenger
  • "The Trap", a song from Playland by Johnny Marr
  • "The Trap", a song from Good & Evil by Tally Hall
  • Traps (album), 2012 by Jaill
  • "Traps", a single from the Bloc Party album Alpha Games, 2021
  • Traps, a stage name used by the drummer Buddy Rich

Other uses in art and entertainment

  • Trap (novel), by Peter Mathers, 1966
  • Traps (Scott novel), a 2013 novel by MacKenzie Scott
  • A Dangerous Game (novel), a 1956 novel by Friedrich Dürrenmatt, known as Traps in the United States
  • Claptrap, a fictional character from Borderlands
  • Trap room, a part of a theatre
  • Treasury Relief Art Project (1935–39), a New Deal art project

Biology and medicine

Games

Places

  • Tarap, Attock, a village in Pakistan
  • Trap, Mogila, a village in North Macedonia
  • Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales, United Kingdom
  • Trap Grounds, a nature reserve in Oxford, England, United Kingdom

Science and technology

  • Chemical trap, a chemical compound that is used to detect unstable compounds
  • Magnetic trap, the use of magnetic fields to isolate atoms or particles
  • Petroleum trap, a geological structure that forms a petroleum reservoir
  • Social trap. a psychological system where people, operating for short-term individual gains, lead to long-term group losses.
  • Trap rock, any dark-colored, fine-grained, non-granitic igneous rock
  • Trap and trace device, records any number called by, or calling, a particular telephone
  • Trap (plumbing), a pipe to prevent the release of gases
  • Trap (printing), a commercial-printing technique to overcome registration problem

Computing

Sports

Transportation

  • Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
  • Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
  • Traffic-related air pollution

Other uses

  • Trapdoor
  • Operation Trap, code name of a large-scale Soviet offensive operation against the Mujahideen supply base of Karkari-Sharshari
  • Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel, a U.S. military term for a rescue mission to retrieve a downed aircraft
  • Training-Repayment-Agreement Provision, a part of an employment bond or contract which stipulates that the cost of on-the-job training will be borne by the employee
  • Passing (gender) (slang)

See also

  • Ambush
  • Booby trap
  • Sand trap (disambiguation)
  • The Trap (disambiguation)
  • Trapped (disambiguation)
  • Trapper (disambiguation)
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