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n. An unsafe building or other structure.

n. A perilous circumstance or situation.

n. An extremely dangerous location, structure or device.

n. 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.

n. any structure that is very unsafe; where people are likely to be killed

"A through ticket by way of Nicaragua also cost less and, perhaps as important as everything else, Nicaragua was not known as a deathtrap."

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