Crossword clues for mousetrap
mousetrap
- Spring is here
- Rodent catcher
- Board game with cheese-shaped tokens
- Some try to build a better one
- Pest-control device
- Mickey's mouth or greatest fear
- It may be loaded with cheese
- Inventors may try to build a better one
- Danger for Stuart Little
- Contraption-building board game with a plastic boot, bucket, and bathtub: 2 wds
- Cheese setting
- Board game where players win pieces of cheese
- Cheese place
- 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
- Long-running Christie play, with "The"
- Mickey's nemesis?
- Quiet person chops Cheddar cheese
- Cheap cheese initially appetising: puts more out
- Cheap cheese
- Opera must beat long-running play
- Boring hard cheese
- Kids' board game with a Rube Goldbergian device
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mousetrap \mouse"trap`\, mouse trap \mouse" trap`\, n. Any device that catches, and usually kills, mice. They are of various designs, the most common being a stiff loop of wire mounted on a small wooden platform base and attached to a strong spring, which holds the loop firmly against the base. To activate the trap, the loop is pulled through a 180[deg] arc against the tension of the spring and held against the base by a delicate metal catch, which can keep the loop from moving, though in a state of high tension. The metal catch is moved when a mouse tries to take a piece of bait attached to it, releasing the loop which forcefully moves though an arc, usually killing the mouse. A larger version of the same device is used as a rat trap.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents. 2 (context computing English) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers. 3 (context business studies English) With attribute "better", a hypothetical new or improved product used in economic projections. 4 (context chiefly British English) Ordinary, everyday cheese 5 (context NZ English) A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved. vb. (context figuratively English) To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
WordNet
n. a trap for catching mice
(American 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 [syn: trap play]
Wikipedia
A mousetrap is a specialised type of animal trap designed primarily to catch mice; however, it may also (intentionally or unintentionally) trap other small animals. Mousetraps are usually set in an indoor location where there is a suspected infestation of rodents. Larger traps are designed to catch other species of animals; such as rats, squirrels, other small rodents, or other animals.
A mousetrap is a device for catching mice.
Mousetrap or mouse trap may also refer to:
- The Mousetrap, a play by Agatha Christie
- Mousetrap (weapon), a 1942 antisubmarine weapon
- Mousetrap (clothing), a device used to prevent a person from taking off their clothing
- Mouse Trap (game), a board game
- Mouse Trap (video game), a 1981 arcade game
- Mousetrap (Denver), an informal name for the highway interchange of I-25 and I-70 in Denver, Colorado, USA
- Mousetrapping, a technique used by some websites to prevent visitors from leaving their site
- Cayley's mousetrap, a game invented by Arthur Cayley
- The Murder of Gonzago, the play within the play Hamlet, which the prince names as Mousetrap
- "Mouse Trap", a song by Buckner & Garcia from their album Pac-Man Fever
- "The Mousetrap (Caught In)", a song by Peter Hammill from his album The Future Now
- Mouse Trap tactic used to defeat chariots.
Mousetrap (ASW Marks 20 and 22) was an anti- submarine rocket used mainly during the Second World War by the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard. Its development was begun in 1941 as a replacement for Hedgehog, a British-made projector, which was the first ahead-throwing ASW weapon. These, however, were spigot-launched, placing considerable strain on the launching vessel's deck, whereas Mousetrap was rocket-propelled. As a result, Mousetrap's four or eight rails for rockets saved weight and were easier to install.
The rockets weighed each, with a Torpex warhead and contact pistol, exactly like Hedgehog.
By the end of the war, over 100 Mousetrap Mark 22s were mounted in U.S. Navy ships, including three each on 12 destroyers, and submarine chasers (usually two sets of rails).
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 local roads in 1951. The interchange was completely rebuilt, starting in 1987. The re-design was prompted from an incident where a U.S. Navy truck hauling torpedoes overturned, causing panic and major disruptions in the city.
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.