trapper

One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.

Noun

  1. One who traps animals; one who makes a business of trapping animals, for their pelts, meat, etc.
    • The trapper is amazed and disturbed because he sees that this wild man has been freeing all the animals from his traps. - 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the...
  2. A worker (usually a child) who opens and shuts a door in a gallery or level of a mine, to manage ventilation and access.
  3. An ornamental covering for a horse. See trapping and caparison.
  4. A drug dealer.
    • Wanna be a trapper? Never serve a nigga where you live - 2013, “Ounces”, performed by Migos:
  5. A performer of trap music.
  6. Synonym of catcher.

    Synonyms: catcher

Origin

From trap + -er, compare french trappeur.

Forms

trappers

Derived

honey trapper trapper hat