Trap Play
nounid
145175·updated May 18, 2026verified
(American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated
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Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- mousetrap
- plural
- Trap Plays
- possessive
- Trap Play's
- pluralpossessive
- Trap Plays'
Framework definitions
- §1
- (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacated
- §1 · legacy_primary
- (American football) a play in which a defensive player is allowed to cross the line of scrimmage and then blocked off as the runner goes through the place the lineman vacatedDR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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