Jail
Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.
Trap
Trap verb - To catch or hold as if in a net.
How words are described
| old | old jail | old trap |
| full | full jail | full trap |
| common | common jail | common trap |
| certain | certain jail | certain trap |
| Other adjectives: stupid, nasty, actual, real, big, infamous, horrible, new, hidden, titular, inescapable, local, magical. | ||
Common collocations
| person | jail person | trap person |
Both words in one sentence
- Thankfully, his plans were derailed when Beef lured him into a trap that would have him serve jail time for the duration of the wedding, and he hasn't been seen since.
Source: The Scrappy / Web Comics - However, the aliens who built the artifact quickly capture him and trap him in a jail cell with a hot alien space babe.
Source: Film / Moontrap - But his love for Kate has resulted in him making some remarkably idiotic decisions - walking right into a trap that ended with him going to jail and breaking out of jail only a few months away from the end of his sentence stand out as some of the most egregious examples.
Source: Love Makes You Dumb
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