man-trap

[ man-trap ]

/ ˈmænˌtræp /

an outdoor trap set for humans, as to snare poachers or trespassers.

Slang. a woman who is purported to be dangerously seductive or who schemes in her amours; femme fatale.

Origin of man-trap

First recorded in 1765–75

Big hole down there filled up and the bridge that was just a mantrap new floored!

The Long Roll |Mary Johnston
Granted the opportunity, she could easily conceive herself as dealing very vigorously with the mantrap.

Nobody |Louis Joseph Vance
The old sheriff never allows any thing done outside the rules, for he's tighter than a mantrap. '

Manuel Pereira |F. C. Adams
The answer to the acrostic is “mantrap”; the missing rhyme is “mishap.”

Marge Askinforit |Barry Pain

The cousins were alongside in the field which this mantrap bounded.

Sporting Society, Vol. II (of 2) |Various

mantrap

/ (ˈmænˌtræp) /

a snare for catching people, esp trespassers