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Acronym	Definition
TRAP	Tartrate-Resistant Acid Phosphatase
TRAP	Take Risk and Prosper (brand)
TRAP	Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers (laws)
TRAP	Telephony Record and Playback
TRAP	Trouble Report Analysis Plan
TRAP	Twin Reversed Arterial Perfusion
TRAP	Tactical Recovery of Aircraft and Personnel (USMC)
TRAP	Thrombin Receptor-Activating Peptide (used in research to initiate platelet activation and blood coagulation)
TRAP	Task Force for Regional Auto Theft Prevention
TRAP	Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure
TRAP	Tandem Recursive Algorithm Process
TRAP	Tyrosine Rich Amelogenin Peptide
TRAP	Tactical and Related Applications
TRAP	Triiodothyronine Receptor Auxiliary Protein
TRAP	tryptophan RNA-binding attenuation protein
TRAP	Training Resources Arbitration Panel
TRAP	Tactical Related Applications Program (US Army)
TRAP	Tactical Receive Equipment & Related Applications
TRAP	Terminal Radiation Program
TRAP	Tanks, Racks, Adapters, & Pylons
TRAP	Terrorism Research and Analysis Program
TRAP	Tactical Receive Application Protocol
TRAP	Training Requirements Analysis Process
TRAP	TUNL Real-Time Analysis Package
TRAP	Technical Risk Assessment Program
TRAP	Tape Recorder Action Plan (committee)
TRAP	Training Resources Adjudication Panel
TRAP	Toronto Resource and Action Partnership (Toronto, Canada)
TRAP	Tennessee Research Association of the Paranormal
TRAP	Technical Risk Assurance Process

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And Dolly, who had inherited her father's gift of humorous storytelling, made Varenka helpless with laughter as she related for the third and fourth time, always with fresh humorous additions, how she had only just put on her new shoes for the benefit of the visitor, and on going into the drawing room, heard suddenly the rumble of the trap. And who should be in the trap but Vassenka himself, with his Scotch cap, and his songs and his gaiters, and all, sitting in the hay.

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According to agreement they were fitted out with horses, traps, ammunition, and everything requisite for their undertaking, and were to bring in all the peltries they should collect, either to this trading post, or to the establishment at the mouth of Columbia River.

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In that case I was resolved to tell him that Raffles and I had made a bet about his burglar trap, and that I had come to see who had won.

That was the room in which Maguire kept his trophies and set his trap. All.

"To think that I've only to invent a trap to catch a crook, for a blamed crook to walk right into!

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Aunt Em, badly frightened, threw open the trap door in the floor and climbed down the ladder into the small, dark hole.

Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him.

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Binu Charley took the lead as they pushed on, and trap after trap yielded its secret lurking-place to his keen scrutiny.

The advance was more rapid now, for Binu Charley placed the captive bushman in front of him and made him clear the run-way of traps. Once, at a sharp turn where a man's shoulder would unavoidably brush against a screen of leaves, the bushman displayed great caution as he spread the leaves aside and exposed the head of a sharp-pointed spear, so set that the casual passer-by would receive at the least a nasty scratch.

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"But what of the goats and the corn and the fat roots and the fish- trap?" spoke up Afraid-of-the-Dark, "what of all this?

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This year they had come to trap live specimens for a European zoological garden, and today they were approaching a trap which they had set in the hope of capturing a specimen of the large baboons that frequented the neighborhood.

Heretofore the Swedes had always watched near-by their trap, for as a rule only the stronger bulls are thus caught, since in their greediness they prevent the weaker from approaching the covered bait, and when once within the ordinary rude trap woven on the spot of interlaced branches they are able, with the aid of their friends upon the outside, to demolish their prison and escape.