Trap

A trap is a device or tactic intended to catch an intruder, enemy, error, or substance.

Trap may also refer to:

• Giovanni Trapattoni, Italian association football coach and former player known by this name
• Bat and trap, an old game related to cricket
• Deccan traps (trap), a term used in geology for some rock formations shaped like steps, derived from the Dutch word for stair.
• Deep-level trap, a crystalline defect in a semiconductor material.
• Drain trap
• Ink trap, a feature of some typefaces that are spaces where printing ink can accumulate
• Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (TRAP), US military acronym for a rescue mission retrieving a downed aircraft.
• Tartrate resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP), in biology
• TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS), an acronym for the cutaneous condition tumor necrosis factor receptor associated periodic syndrome
• Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
• TRAP transporter, a type of prokaryotic solute transport in biology.
• Trap (computing), a code or signal designed to capture errors and reveal where they are
• Technology Recovery Action Plan (Trap), in software change management process
• Trap, common Internet slang for a particularly convincing pre-transition, Male-to-Female transexual or cross-dresser
• Trap (novel), a novel by Peter Mathers
• Trap (plumbing), a U-shaped pipe located below a drain; also called a water seal
• Trap (poker), a poker strategy
• Trap (printing), a commercial printing technique to overcome registration problems
• Trap, Carmarthenshire, a hamlet in Wales
• Trap basalt (flood basalt), a type of rock formation
• TRAP law, a type of legislation used to restrict abortion providers
• Trap room, a part of a theater
• Trap run, an American football play
• Trap shooting
• Twin reversed arterial perfusion (TRAP), a twin pregnancy abnormality
• Magnetic trap (disambiguation), various meanings, in physics
• An informal term for a cross-dresser

See also

• Ambush
• Sand trap (disambiguation)
• The Trap (disambiguation)
• Trapdoor
• Trapezius muscle
• Trapped (disambiguation)
• Trapper (disambiguation)
• Trapping (disambiguation)