trapper
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English
Etymology
From trap + -er, compare french trappeur.
Pronunciation
Noun
trapper (plural trappers)
- 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.
- (mining, historical) A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
- An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
- (slang) A drug dealer. See also trap house.
- 2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos:
- Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live
- (slang) A performer of trap music.
Derived terms
Translations
one who traps animals
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Danish
Noun
trapper c
Dutch
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
trapper m (plural trappers, diminutive trappertje n)
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Verb
trapper
- to trap (hunt using traps)
Conjugation
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 | – | – | – | ||||
| 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:
(Christopher Kendris , Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Derived terms
Further reading
- “trapper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
trapper m or f
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
trapper f