speed trap

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   a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders

   Broadertrap

Questions about speed trap

What does speed trap mean?

speed trap means "a trap arranged on a roadway for catching speeders".

Is speed trap a common word?

speed trap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.