Associations to the word «Deathtrap»

Wiktionary

DEATHTRAP, noun. An extremely dangerous location, structure or device.
DEATHTRAP, noun. A plot device where a villain in a story puts a hero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadistic murder.

Dictionary definition

DEATHTRAP, noun. Any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne