trapper

English

Etymology

From trap +‎ -er, compare french trappeur.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæpɚ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æpə(ɹ)

Noun

trapper (plural trappers)

1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 189:

     The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps.

2. (mining, historical) A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
4. (slang) A drug dealer. See also trap house.
   • 2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos:

     Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live

5. (slang) A performer of trap music.

Derived terms

• honey trapper
• trapper hat

 

Translations

one who traps animals

• Bulgarian: трапер m (traper)
• Esperanto: kaptisto
• French: trappeur (fr) m
• German: Trapper (de) m
• Hungarian: prémvadász (hu)
• Italian: trapper (it) m or f, cacciatore (it) m
• Polish: traper (pl) m, traperka (pl) f
• Russian: зверолов (ru) m (zverolov), траппер (ru) m (trapper)
• Slovak: traper m
• Spanish: trampero (es) m
• Swedish: pälsjägare c, trapper (sv) c
• Turkish: tuzakçı (tr)
• Ukrainian: трапер m (traper)

Danish

Noun

trapper c

1. indefinite plural of trappe

Dutch

Etymology

From trappen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɑpər

Noun

trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)

1. bicycle pedal

   Synonym: pedaal

French

Etymology

From trappe +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

trapper

1. to trap (hunt using traps)

Conjugation

Conjugation of trapper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	trapper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	trappant /tʁa.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		trappé /tʁa.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	trappe /tʁap/	trappes /tʁap/	trappe /tʁap/	trappons /tʁa.pɔ̃/	trappez /tʁa.pe/	trappent /tʁap/
	imperfect	trappais /tʁa.pɛ/	trappais /tʁa.pɛ/	trappait /tʁa.pɛ/	trappions /tʁa.pjɔ̃/	trappiez /tʁa.pje/	trappaient /tʁa.pɛ/
	past historic2	trappai /tʁa.pe/	trappas /tʁa.pa/	trappa /tʁa.pa/	trappâmes /tʁa.pam/	trappâtes /tʁa.pat/	trappèrent /tʁa.pɛʁ/
	future	trapperai /tʁa.pʁe/	trapperas /tʁa.pʁa/	trappera /tʁa.pʁa/	trapperons /tʁa.pʁɔ̃/	trapperez /tʁa.pʁe/	trapperont /tʁa.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	trapperais /tʁa.pʁɛ/	trapperais /tʁa.pʁɛ/	trapperait /tʁa.pʁɛ/	trapperions /tʁa.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	trapperiez /tʁa.pə.ʁje/	trapperaient /tʁa.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	trappe /tʁap/	trappes /tʁap/	trappe /tʁap/	trappions /tʁa.pjɔ̃/	trappiez /tʁa.pje/	trappent /tʁap/
	imperfect2	trappasse /tʁa.pas/	trappasses /tʁa.pas/	trappât /tʁa.pa/	trappassions /tʁa.pa.sjɔ̃/	trappassiez /tʁa.pa.sje/	trappassent /tʁa.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	trappe /tʁap/	—	trappons /tʁa.pɔ̃/	trappez /tʁa.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• trappage

Further reading

• “trapper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

trapper m or f

1. indefinite plural of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

trapper f

1. indefinite plural of trapp