sucker trap

English

Alternative forms

  • sucker's trap
  • sucker-trap

Noun

sucker trap (plural sucker traps)

  1. (informal) A scam; A fraudulent deal offered to the unwary.
    • 2001, Mickey Spillane, The Mike Hammer Collection‎, volume 1, →ISBN:
      I fell for a sucker trap and got taken but good. My own fault ... should have known better.
    • 2011, Ken Follett, On Wings of Eagles‎, →ISBN:
      It had been a sucker trap and they had fallen right into it. Why, they had walked in here of their own free will, to keep an appointment made by the US Embassy.
    • 2013, Imre Kertész, Fiasco‎, →ISBN:
      “Such a cheap sucker trap... a cheap sucker trap... and I fell for it!” he was hissing, glaring at Koves with a look of hatred from behind misted-up spectacles.

Translations

References

  • 2003, Vincent Joseph Monteleone, Criminal Slang: The Vernacular of the Underworld Lingo‎, →ISBN, page 229:
    SUCKER TRAP (N) A fraudulent trick; a fraudulent device.
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