rattrap
Example Sentences
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While cleaning it I found lots of matches, a cap, and a rattrap.
From The New Yorker
Chumley’s, he wrote, came well recommended when he was seeking a place to take “a ‘nice girl’ instead of the rattraps I usually patronized.”
From New York Times
The carton was very sticky, covered in glue from rattraps.
From New York Times
He remembers that house as a “rattrap,” a term that had an all-too-literal meaning for Rice, whose feet were bitten by rodents while he slept.
From Newsweek
“Intelligence is a rattrap,” says one cynical spymaster.
From New York Times
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