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A trap in the context of electronics, is used to selectively block a range of frequencies. See 'trap dipole' on google for examples.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.35.45.2 ( talk) 18:22, 16 June 2005
"In anime culture, a male crossdresser whose cross-dressing so convincing that he's often mistaken for a real girl."
"A meme from the internet describing a man who is intending to look like an attractive woman or a pre-op male to female transsexual. Females crossdressing as males or pre-op female to male transsexuals are often referred to as reverse traps. Some consider this usage of the word to be offensive."
Aren't these basically two variant definitions of the same thing? --
96.227.220.60 (
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00:58, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
What happened to this bit, it seems to have disappeared...
Also, Midnight Bliss, the reason it only applies to pre-ops is that individuals are (at least intended to be) convinced that the "trap" is female and, should events progress in such a manner, if this individual sees the "trap"'s genitalia they will have been tricked, conned, hoodwinked and trapped.
Such, I believe, is the cause of this stipulation, however, assuming all goes well regarding surgery, HRT and other physical aspects (voice and muscle mass and such) others will have no means of verifying whether this individual has always been female or is MtF save the individual telling them. Thus they are no longer a trap as no physical aspect can discern them from biological females (ignoring the unlikely probability of testing for XY chromosome).
Also, reverse traps are not females crossdressing as males or pre-op FtMs, these are called double reverse traps (not my grammer...).
Reverse traps are females crossdressing as males crossdressing as females. (A female intending to like like a (biologically male) "trap"). Why one might engage in this is beyond me, save for idle entertainment, but I don't make the slang, I just explain it.
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86.45.244.16 (
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19:26, 6 June 2009 (UTC)..
I don't know if it was removed or what, but I added the definition for the transsexual slang term. I didn't add a citation because nothing else on this page had one, but if some self-righteous wikipedo wants to bring down their wrath upon me, it's all over urbandictionary.com,
encyclopaedia dramatica, and countless other websites that document slang and cultural memes. I know wikipedia has a vicious anti-internet bias (which is what we call "biting the hand that feeds"), but in this case the term's pervasiveness is simply undeniable and anyone contradicting me unarguably represents everything so rightly hated in wikipedia.
96.237.59.92 (
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14:42, 27 June 2009 (UTC) To be precise (solely for the sake of saving effort by future checkers of sig-integrity, since our colleague fell short only by not
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09:26, 1st & 05:51, 2nd August 2015 (UTC)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=trap — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.179.233.174 ( talk) 20:03, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
I was shocked and furious when a user (
User:OlliverWithDoubleL), added it as "
transphobic" slur. I don't think it is. It jokingly described anime character that looks like a female, and later revealed to be male. Mainly, this term could interchangeable with "
crossdressing", where a male wears a female clothing. That's not even transphobic. Also, I want Wikipedia to be unbiased and reliable, so that it wi be trusted by many people in the internet. That's why people always said to us, "Never trust Wikipedia, it's all edited,". Thank you for my talk.
Qadri223
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02:34, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
An ip colleague recently tackled an earlier 3-link entry, rewording
as
(By the way, while cis is indeed the perfect complement to trans, only gender-/sexual-minority persons, organic chemists, and students of 19th-century European geography are like be clueful about that.) These two takes on the key issue each acknowledge the role (but not that it is the sole role) of any Dab entry (namely, to disambiguate), which imposes two requirements:
(Note especially that Dab entries are finding guides, not usage guides.) These imply our requirement that
I make no claim of being prepared to create the perfect dab entry for this sense, but my own rewording should facilitate any improvements by others, as i offer the following red+blue-link entry:
Of course the entry would need rewriting once such an additional article is created, and such a red-gone-blue link's title would IMO more likely than not be rewritten to better characterize its so-far hypothetical content.
If usage actually is restricted to female-seeking males, and/or other combinations (as IMO previously at least hinted), that is a matter to take up in the article, not on the dab page: i repeat, a finding guide and not a usage guide.
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Jerzy•
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08:21, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
This is a disambiguation-page, so intended to dab words that are spelled alike, but mean something different. The page should not dive into the meaning an sich. So the section "Types of traps" is be eliminated here: it does nothing to dab, it is only specifying "Trap" (first meaning). I have moved the list to Trap (tactic), and the items could be in the Category:Trap. - DePiep ( talk) 19:47, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
Quite confused by the many disambiguity pages with "trap". "The trap" being another page than "trap". Perhaps a more stringent view could be found. — Fritz Jörn ( talk) 08:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
Only few of the entries on the Trapping (disambiguation) article have target articles that only/primarily use the "...ing" conjugation or even specifically mention it at all, whereas many cases the root form is just conjugated in certain grammar contexts. I removed a few. But now looking more broadly, the root trap disambiguation page also includes items that are commonly used in the "...ing" form as well as root, including the WP:PRIMARY for "trapping" itself. Makes it hard for readers/DAB-resolvers to find what they want if they have to guess at alternate grammars rather than more one-stop shop. DMacks ( talk) 10:40, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
How is it that this page doesn't lead with what is clearly the primary meaning of "trap", namely a stationary mechanical device or construction designed to capture an animal? It's the first definition in Wikitionary, as well as every other dictionary, and the first thing anyone thinks about with the term. Obviously, there are a lot of other meanings, so this should stay a DAB page, but that traps aren't linked anywhere is a baffling omission. HCA ( talk) 17:21, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
Article missing reference under the Sports section to Trap shooting. See /info/en/?search=Trap_shooting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.48.161 ( talk) 21:07, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Within the body building community your "traps" refer to the trapezius muscle ( /info/en/?search=Trapezius). Perhaps a noteworthy addition? 84.241.199.153 ( talk) 10:20, 30 November 2021 (UTC)