bumtrap

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English

Etymology

From bum +‎ trap.

Pronunciation

Noun

bumtrap (plural bumtraps)

  1. (obsolete, slang, rare) A bailiff.
    • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society, published 1973, page 215:
      The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey.