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What is "death trap"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
death trap
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The house looked like a real death trap.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Any room with sealed-unit double glazing and only an opening top light could be a death trap.
▪ Every area he tells us is secure turns out to be a death trap.
▪ Fire broke out in an old, litter-strewn stand which soon became a death trap in which fifty-six people perished.
▪ The whole lake was a death trap for birds.
▪ You've made a bloody death trap on the stairs.

Usage examples of "death trap".

Here they discovered a land of beauty that, unfortunately for them, turned out to be a death trap.

And in less than a week, she would have to get back on that fancy flying death trap of Roarke's and face the journey home.

You'll have to knock me out to get me to stay on this flying death trap.

Both vehicles shot off the cliff like projectiles from a slingshot and plunged hundreds of feet in a fiery tandem death trap.

I piloted that death trap across the Atlantic, and I'm sitting here shaking.

Doc Savage examined the dynamite-exploding mechanism carefully, then got it disconnected with a quick gesture, after which he went over the doors and windows in a swift search to be sure there was no second death trap.

You ordered the elevator death trap which nearly got Monk, Ham, Johnny, Long Tom, and Renny—.

When you were here this morning, you told me not to go for the poison, but that Doc Savage would probably appear on the scene and be caught in a death trap!