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Meaning of Mousetrap | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2 Specialized
ˈmaʊsˌtɹæp

Definitions

  1. A device for capturing or killing mice and other rodents.
  2. A website designed to open another copy of itself when the user tries to close the webpage.
  3. Ordinary, everyday cheese.
  4. A slice of bread or toast topped with cheese and then grilled or microwaved.
    New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
  5. An antisubmarine rocket used mainly during World War II by the US Navy and US Coast Guard.

Equivalents

Afrikaans muisval
العربية مصيدة الفئران
བོད་སྐད ཙི་ཙི་ཟིན་ཡག
Català ratera
Čeština pastička
Español ratonera
فارسی تلهموش
Galego ratoeira
Magyar egérfogó
Íslenska músagildra
한국어 쥐덫
Latina muscipula
Lietuvių pelėkautai
Македонски глувчарник клапа
Nederlands muizenval
Português ratoeira
Русский мышеловка
Svenska råttfälla
Українська мишоловка

Examples

“Besides depth charges, they were armed with smaller forward firing antisubmarine rocket launchers called mousetraps. Fired in groups, these rockets detonated when they contacted a submarine.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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