Trap
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A trap is a mechanical device used to capture or restrain an animal for purposes such as hunting, pest control, or ecological research.
Trap or TRAP may also refer to:
Art and entertainment
Films and television
- Trap (2015 film), Filipino film
- 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 (EDM), a subgenre of electronic dance music that originated in the 2010s
- Trap music, a subgenre of hip hop that originated in the 1990s
- 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
- 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
- Tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase, a metalloenzyme involved in bone formation
- Mediator (coactivator) or thyroid hormone receptor-associated proteins
- TNF-related activation protein, also known as CD40 ligand
- Tripartite ATP-independent periplasmic transporter, in prokaryotes
- trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, in bacilli
- US TRAP laws ("Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers")
- TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome (TRAPS)
- Twin reversed arterial perfusion, a twin pregnancy abnormality
Games
- Trap (chess)
- Trap (poker), a strategy
- Trap pass, see Glossary of contract bridge terms
Places
- Tarap, Attock, a village in Pakistan
- Trap, Mogila, 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
- Petroleum trap, a geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir
- 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 problems
Computing
- Interrupt, a request for the processor to interrupt executing code
- A type of Simple Network Management Protocol Protocol Data Unit used to report an alert or other asynchronous event about a managed subsystem
- Intercepting normal method calls via a proxy object
Sports
- Neutral zone trap, an ice hockey defensive strategy
- Sand trap, a type of bunker (golf)
- Starting Traps, the equipment that racing greyhounds start a race from
- Trap shooting
- Triathlon Association of the Philippines, the governing body for the sport in the Philippines
Transportation
- Trap (car), a secret compartment in an automobile
- Trap (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage
- Traffic-related air pollution
Other uses
- Feminine male-to-female transgender
- Trap door
- 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