trap block

1. 1.

   (American football) an illegal block

   Broaderblocking

   American football

Questions about trap block

What does trap block mean?

trap block means "(American football) an illegal block".

Is trap block a common word?

trap block 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.