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Steel Trap

Definition: Steel Trap

Steel Trap

Noun

1. An acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well known sharpness of steel traps); "he's as sharp as a steel trap"; "a mind like a steel trap".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Modern Usage: Steel Trap

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	The Steel Trap (1952)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Image Slideshow: Steel Trap

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Steel Trap

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
the steel trap	18
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translation: Steel Trap

Language		Translations for "steel trap"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		saks (scissors). (various references)

Dutch		wildklem (jaw trap, trap). (various references)

French		chausse-trappe. (various references)

German		Fangeisen (bait, trap). (various references)

Greek		δόκανο (trap). (various references)

Italian		tagliuola (trap). (various references)

Pig Latin		eelstay aptray

Portuguese		armadilha em metal (trap). (various references)

Spanish		trampa (booby trap, catch, cheat, cheating, deadfall, debt, decoy duck, graft, hatch, hocus pocus, mantrap, pit, pitfall, plant, snare, trap, trapdoor, trick, trickery, try on, wangle). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Steel Trap

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: saltpeter.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-p-r-s-t-t"
	-1 letter: alertest, palettes, partlets, peartest, petrales, platters, pleaters, prattles, prelates, pretaste, replates, splatter, sprattle.
	-2 letters: elaters, estreat, leapers, letters, palette, palters, partlet, patters, peltast, peltate, pelters, persalt, pertest, petrale, petrels, petters, pettles, plaster, platers, platter, pleaser, pleater, prattle, prelate, presale, pretest, psalter, rattles, realest, relapse, relates, repeals, repeats, replate, reslate, respelt, restate, retapes.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-p-r-s-t-t"
	+1 letter: saltpeters, splattered, streetlamp.
	+2 letters: breastplate, letterspace, patternless, streetlamps, terneplates, wentletraps.
	+3 letters: breastplates, extrapolates, interpolates, letterspaces, postliterate, preliterates, superathlete, telegraphist.
	+4 letters: electroplates, interpellates, letterspacing, recapitulates, septentrional, stereotypical, superathletes, telegraphists, temporalities, tetraploidies, tetrapyrroles.
	+5 letters: hyperstimulate, interpellators, keratoplasties, letterspacings, posterolateral, presentability, presentational, presentimental, reputabilities, respectability, superstimulate, teleportations, terephthalates.
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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Images: Slideshow
4. Expressions: Internet

5. Translations: Modern
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography

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