mouse·trap
ˈmau̇s-ˌtrap 
1
: a trap for mice
2
: a stratagem that lures one to defeat or destruction
mousetrapped; mousetrapping; mousetraps
: to snare in or as if in a mousetrap
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Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Has Jeremy Greene’s Ecco built a better mousetrap for finding streaming TV and movies?
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 June 2025
Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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Noun
Even my mousetraps had been chewed and a box of .22 ammunition crushed.
—Ted Updike, Outdoor Life, 22 May 2025
Has Jeremy Greene’s Ecco built a better mousetrap for finding streaming TV and movies?
—Todd Spangler, Variety, 10 June 2025
Verb
All of that seems to have been forgotten, though, in the rush to better mousetrap the category with extreme levels of brightness, unconventional form factors, solar charging, and other needless complication.
—Wes Siler, Outside Online, 9 Apr. 2020
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“Mousetrap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mousetrap. Accessed 31 Jul. 2025.
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