trap car
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A vehicle used by law enforcement agencies as bait to capture car thieves or thieves who steal items from cars.
noun
A railroad car used for much smaller shipments usually within terminal or city limits.
noun
A passenger vehicle used for drug smuggling, having a sophisticated design that reveals “stash spots” for drugs only when certain functions of the vehicle are performed simultaneously or in sequence.
Example Sentences
- "But a look inside the trunk reveals one of the reasons—a sheet of boilerplate steel mounted at the forward wall. Goff recognizes this setup. It's what they call a "trap car.""
- "He got him another trap car Chevy."
- "Ray had bought this particular vehicle from a trap-car shop up in the Bronx. […] Hidden compartments behind the glove box, to the left of the steering column, and in other spots throughout the interior concealed Ray's guns and his personal stash of drugs."
- "The crisp notes travel from local dealers to Mexican distributors and float south over the border in a trap car."
- "The former undercover agent recalled, "we brought up an especially good batch of marijuana from a seizure in Texas, and we showed the targets the dope in a trap car” with secret compartments."