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mousetrap
Alternative clues for the word mousetrap
- Some try to build a better one
- A trap for catching mice
- (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
- Board game with cheese-shaped tokens
- Danger for Stuart Little
- Cheese setting
- Kids' board game with a Rube Goldbergian device
- Mickey's mouth or greatest fear
Word definitions for mousetrap in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Mousetrap is an informal name for the interchange of Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 in the northern part of Denver, Colorado , United States. The interchange pre-dates the Interstate Highway system , originally built as an intersection between two ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., from mouse (n.) + trap (n.). Figurative use from 1570s. The thing is older than the word. Old English had musfealle ; Middle English had mouscacche (late 14c.).
Usage examples of mousetrap.
Ruskin had designed what he felt was the perfect mousetrap, until Olga pointed out, with what seemed to be family feeling, that these mice had human brains.
Operation Mousetrap finishes, can I spend the rest of the night at your place?
Operation Mousetrap was back to being a disastrous balls-up -the rapist clean away, a policewoman knocked about, the farce with the couple in the car, and to cap it all, he had no bloody fags left.
Ganimed stood by the door of the workshop with the mousetrap in her hand.
She was still unaware, just picking up on the excitement in the air-figuring the mousetrap competition had been announced.
The mousetraps were oversized affairs, big enough to catch a bear, thrown in the path of an advancing army.
Behe compared these cell parts to a simple mousetrap, with far fewer necessary components than a cilium or flagellum.
It had a mousetrap of elaborate gutters and winding rainspouts that emptied into big barrels here and there, while a small wooden windlass secured with ropes and pulleys hung down the front of the building.
The mousetraps were oversized affairs, big enough to catch a bear, thrown in the path of an advancing army.
Soviet armored spearheads, reversed his direction east of Jüterbog, abandoned the route of the Ostrogoths, and hurried toward the Westenemy: over the ruins of the inner city, around the government quarter, close call on the Alexander-platz, guided through the Tiergarten by two bitches in heat, and damn near captured near the Zoological Gardens air raid shelter, where gigantic mousetraps were waiting for him, but he seven times circumambulated the Victory Column, shot down the Siegesallee, counseled by dog instinct, that wise old saw, joined a gang of civilian moving men, who were moving theater accessories from the exhibition pavilion by the radio tower to Nikolassee.
John was a member of Delaware's Lodge clanpesticides originally, and then all forms of agrochemicals, plastics and pharmaceuti-cals, eventually forming a monster that spat out everything from mousetraps to orange juice to nuclear weapons components.
The casting agent, which was a semiautonomous piece of software, had assembled a company of nine payers, enough to ract all the guest roles in First Class to Geneva, which was about intrigue among rich people on a train inoccupied France, and which was to ractives what The Mousetrap was to passive theatre.
Little did Julia suspect that Booth would mousetrap her champagne, just as she had mousetrapped her chaperone's beddy-bye slug of wartime white lightning, with chloral hydrate.
Set rat and mousetraps, lay down poison for the cockroaches, and buy flypapers to twirl from the ceiling and trap the flies on their sticky, toxic surfaces.
She'd managed to keep up in the nightmare retreat through the desert, after Tewfik mousetrapped them, which demanded some respect.