| trap block | (American football) an illegal block |
mousetrap
trap play | (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated |
ambush
ambuscade
lying in wait
trap | the act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise |
| trap-door spider | American spider that constructs a silk-lined nest with a hinged lid |
| insect | small air-breathing arthropod |
| social insect | an insect that lives in a colony with other insects of the same species |
dipterous insect
two-winged insects
dipteran
dipteron | insects having usually a single pair of functional wings (anterior pair) with the posterior pair reduced to small knobbed structures and mouth parts adapted for sucking or lapping or piercing |
hymenopterous insect
hymenopteran
hymenopteron
hymenopter | insects having two pairs of membranous wings and an ovipositor specialized for stinging or piercing |
orthopterous insect
orthopteron
orthopteran | any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts |
phasmid
phasmid insect | large cylindrical or flattened mostly tropical insects with long strong legs that feed on plants, walking sticks and leaf insects |
walking stick
walkingstick
stick insect | any of various mostly tropical insects having long twiglike bodies |
walking leaf
leaf insect | tropical insect having a flattened leaflike body, common in southern Asia and the East Indies |
| dictyopterous insect | cockroaches and mantids |
hemipterous insect
bug hemipteran
hemipteron | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base, usually show incomplete metamorphosis |
| heteropterous insect | true bugs: insects whose forewings are membranous but have leathery tips |
homopterous insect
homopteran | insects having membranous forewings and hind wings |
| coccid insect | scale insects and mealybugs |
| scale insect | small homopterous insect that usually lives and feeds on plants and secretes a protective waxy covering |
| wax insect | any of various insects that secrete a waxy substance |
cochineal insect
cochineal
Dactylopius coccus | Mexican red scale insect that feeds on cacti, the source of a red dye |
spittle insect
spittlebug | small leaping herbivorous insect that lives in a mass of protective froth which it and its larvae secrete |
| psocopterous insect | small soft-bodied insect with chewing mouthparts and either no wings or two pairs |
neuropteron
neuropteran
neuropterous insect | insect having biting mouthparts and four large membranous wings with netlike veins |
trichopterous insect
trichopteran
trichopteron | caddis fly |
thysanuran insect
thysanuron | primitive wingless insects: bristletail |
thysanopter
thysanopteron
thysanopterous insect | an insect of the order Thysanoptera |
lepidopterous insect
lepidopteron
lepidopteran | insect that in the adult state has four wings more or less covered with tiny scales |
bunker
sand trap
trap | a hazard on a golf course |
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
| steel trap | a trap made of steel with a strong spring and sharp toothlike projections to hold the prey |
suntrap
solar trap | a terrace or garden oriented to take advantage of the sun while protected from cold winds |
| trap | a device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned |
| trap | a light two-wheeled carriage |
| trap | a device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters |
| trap | drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas |
| trap-and-drain auger | a plumber's snake for clearing a trap and drain |
| trap door | a hinged or sliding door in a floor or ceiling |
trap
cakehole
hole
maw
yap
gob | informal terms for the mouth |
| steel trap | an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well-known sharpness of steel traps), he's as sharp as a steel trap, a mind like a steel trap |
pitfall
booby trap | an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty |
trap
snare | something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares, the exam was full of trap questions, it was all a snare and delusion |
| iron trap | a trap from which there is no escape |
| speed trap | a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders |
| trap line | a line or series of traps |
worm
louse
insect
dirt ball | a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect |
| poverty trap | a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off |
| sting bite insect bite | a painful wound caused by the thrust of an insect's stinger into skin |
insecticide
insect powder | a chemical used to kill insects |
insectifuge
insect repellent
insect repellant | a chemical substance that repels insects |
trap pin immobilize
immobilise | to hold fast or prevent from moving, The child was pinned under the fallen tree |