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US
/ˈmaʊˌstɹæp/
]
[ UK /mˈaʊsɪtɹˌæp/ ]
[ UK /mˈaʊsɪtɹˌæp/ ]
NOUN
- (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
- a trap for catching mice
How To Use mousetrap In A Sentence
- There was a general agreement not to get a cat or mousetraps, but simply to minimize the amount of food left about.
- In the middle of our interview he left the table to go and deal with a dead mouse from a mousetrap under his cooker!
- According to a report in New Scientist, a mousetrap has been developed by Rentokil that will text your mobile to tell you when it has successfully caught one.
- Then Bo called him saying, ‘Just watch out when you open the cupboard doors, because I've set some mousetraps.’
- Before the Mousetrap, Hamlet calls Horatio ‘as just a man / As e'er [his] conversation cop'd withal ’.
- Mousetraps are traditionally baited with cheese.
- They bait the mousetrap with stale cheese.
- I imagine it must be like a game of Mousetrap in there, all cogs and levers, ball bearings and little plastic men diving into baths.
- Have you got any stale cheese that I can bait the mousetrap with?
- The mouse turned to the pig and told him, " There is a mousetrap in the house!
