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Mousetrap   /mˈaʊstrˌæp/   Listen
Mousetrap

noun
1.
A trap for catching mice.
2.
(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.  Synonym: trap play.





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"Mousetrap" Quotes from Famous Books



... bottles, comb, iron bin, fodder rack, meal ark or box, oil flask, oven rake, dung shovel; altogether a very complete list, the compiler of which ends by saying that the reeve ought to neglect nothing that should prove useful, not even a mousetrap, nor even, what is less, a peg ...
— A Short History of English Agriculture • W. H. R. Curtler


Words linked to "Mousetrap" :   manoeuvre, play, American football game, trap play, American football, trap, maneuver


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