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mousetrap noun & verb. LME.
[from MOUSE noun + TRAP noun1.]
A. noun.
A trap for catching mice; fig. a device for enticing a person to destruction or defeat. LME.
T. Middleton Like a mouse-trap baited with bacon. M. R. D. Foot The agents taken in the Villa des Bois mousetrap..were in the noisome Beleyme prison.
More fully mousetrap cheese. Cheese for baiting a mousetrap; poor quality cheese. M17.
Times Farm cheddar that will dazzle the tastebuds accustomed to factory mousetrap.
A very small house. joc. M19.
b. verb trans. Infl. -pp-. Catch (as) in a mousetrap; entice (a person) to destruction or defeat. L19.