英和和英

語源

From trap +‎ -er, compare french trappeur.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈtɹæpɚ/
• 韻: -æpə(ɹ)

名詞

trapper (plural trappers)

1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:

     The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.

2. (mining, historical) A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
4. (slang) A drug dealer.
   • 2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos:

     Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live

5. (slang) A performer of trap music.
6. (ice hockey) Synonym of catcher.

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