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trapper

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Etymology

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From trap +‎ -er, compare french trappeur.

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Noun

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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) A (usually, child) worker 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.

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Danish

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Noun

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trapper c

  1. indefinite plural of trappe

Dutch

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Etymology

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From trappen +‎ -er.

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Noun

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trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)

  1. bicycle pedal
    Synonym: pedaal

French

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Etymology

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From trappe +‎ -er.

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Verb

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trapper

  1. to trap (hunt using traps)

Conjugation

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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).

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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trapper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of trapp

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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trapper f

  1. indefinite plural of trapp
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