Trap

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A trap is a form of underhanded attack intended to catch targets off-guard, granting the trapper the initiative and advantage over their opponent. Traps can also be security features designed to prevent entry into certain areas by making sure that trekking through them is a perilous affair.

Traps can either be; devices designed to strike opponents unexpectedly like pitfalls and landmines, cunning tactics like ambushes and assassinations, or fighting moves like riposte or feinting. The main gist of traps, however, is that they must not be discovered before they are needed. Otherwise, most people can avoid traps and render them useless before they do their work. It may even work against the trapper and put themselves in a dangerous position instead.

In RPGs, a trap can either be a devilishly evil contraption that the GM placed into a campaign to trick the players or to somehow outsmart them (and hopefully kill them later) or a piss poor trick that a lobotomized retard could see right through.

A rather badass type of trap is a bear trap; either a pair of spring loaded mechanical jaws, or a trap that releases a hungry bear.

In DnD

Traps are a staple in Dungeons & Dragons. They can take the form of anything from a spring loaded blade on a door, a pit full of spikes covered up by a net, an illusory wall or many others. It is generally used to screw with the players. The rogue in 3.5 and down is, pretty much, the only class that can deal with them, while in 4e anyone can effectively if they choose to work on that skill. The latest edition lets anyone with thieves' tools proficiency go to work on 'em, though rogues and bards both get specialized tricks to make them best at it.

IRL

Traps have become a widespread term used in places like /a/, /b/, /cm/, /d/, and /h/ to describe young males who, for all intents and purposes, dress and act like the opposite gender, and outwardly appear to be a cute girl. The term is also occasionally used as a term for transgendered people and transvestites, the latter more frequently than the former.

The Japanese term for this is 男の娘 (otoko no ko), literally "daughter of man" or "male girl". This is a pun on 男の子, which is pronounced the same, but is just a catch-all term for "boy", literally meaning "child of man" or "male child".