mantrap

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• The manhole covers had gone, leaving the streets pockmarked with gaping mantraps, while one abandoned tank was vanishing day by day, melting away "as if its armour-plating had been made of ice". Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis
• You can shoot a rope that springs trappers' mantraps back onto them, drop a boulder onto a thug's head, or push wagons full of powder kegs toward a cabin full of enemies and take out a whole crowd with a single, well placed shot.
• Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.” Little Skyscraper on the Prairie
• From your description, Louis, it sounded more like a mantrap to me.
• Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up
• The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. June 2006
• But don't assume mantrap Brenda has the upper hand here. General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down
• I was out of beer (sorry Bangar), nestlé took away all our polly waffles, and Mayhem scoffed the rest of the snakes, so I had to put something in the mantraps. Cheeseburger Gothic » Open for business. The new renovated Ladies Lounge.
• It felt as if his right leg was caught in a mantrap; the more he tried to move, the more he thought it was going to be ripped clean off. WALL GAMES
• Yeah, a mantrap would be considerably larger than an animal trap.