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Bad thing to be caught in Crossword Clue

While searching our database we found 1 possible solution for the: Bad thing to be caught in crossword clue. This crossword clue was last seen on February 16 2025 New York Times Crossword puzzle. The solution we have for Bad thing to be caught in has a total of 4 letters.

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Definition

• To dress with ornaments; to adorn; -- said especially of horses.
• An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.
• Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.
• A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.
• Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.
• A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.
• The game of trapball.
• A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.
• A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.
• A wagon, or other vehicle.
• A kind of movable stepladder.
• To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.
• Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
• To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.
• To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

Check the table below for more likely or similar clues and answers related to Bad thing to be caught in crossword clue.

Rank Answer Clue Publisher
99% TRAP Bad thing to be caught in New York Times
20% THE With 64-Across bad thing to be caught in New York Times


Recent Usage in Crossword Puzzles:

  • New York Times Crossword, February 16 2025

The answer we have in our database for "Bad thing to be caught in" is: TRAP

There are a total of 4 letters in TRAP

The crossword clue "Bad thing to be caught in" was last spotted on February 16 2025

"Bad thing to be caught in" was last seen on New York Times Crossword