Meaning of around the traps | Babel Free

Definitions

here and there; in various places.

Australia, colloquial

Examples

“While debating whether Sydney is a “Pooftah's Paradise,” Les is careful to protest (and obviously a bit too much) his distance from gay men and sexual practice: “Well, all I can say is that I've knocked around the traps and I've lived in Australia man and boy for donkey's years, and in all that time nobody's every^([sic]) tried to slip their pollywaffle up my doughnut.””

“I use two fingers to hand the photo to him through the bars of his gate, say, 'You may have heard around the traps that he's missing, Mister Nero, and although he lives in Hobart he's got many Melbourne connections. Know him?'”

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