joel levi's definitions

baby trap

Term used for an open five-gallon bucket.

Especially one with a volume of water or other liquid in it which would be capable of drowning a small child if it fell into it head-first.

Named so because of the popular warning graphic often on the side of five-gallon pails that depict a small child head-first inside a bucket.

Put the lid on that baby trap, we don't need any more drowned children on this work-site.

by joel levi February 23, 2011