Mousetrap
Pronunciation
- enPR: mous'trăp, IPA: /ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp/
Full definition of mousetrap
Noun
mousetrap
(plural mousetraps)- Device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
- (computing) A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage. Frequently used by advertisers and pornographers.
- (business studies) With attribute "better", a hypothetical new or improved product used in economic projections.But what happens if they build a better mousetrap?
- (chiefly British) Ordinary, everyday cheese
- (NZ) A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved.
Verb
- (figuratively)Â To trap; to trick or fool (someone) into a bad situation.
- 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom, Oxford 2004, p. 724:He hoped to bring the rebels out of their trenches for a showdown battle somewhere south of the Wilderness, that gloomy expanse of scrub oaks and pines where Lee had mousetrapped Joe Hooker exactly a year earlier.