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Option-trap

An option-trap is when a person presented with options feels obliged to pick one of the options, as if they had no choice to ignore all of them. This phenomenon is almost always seen when two options are presented.

A simple example:

"Would you like to go to the movies or to a restaurant?"
This is a simple option-trap which is a question containing two options, and so the person being asked is likely to pick one of the options, where if they had been asked the same question containing only one of the options, they could then answer yes or no, but since two options are given some feel they must choose one or the other.

Another example: Republican or Democrat
A modern example of an option-trap is Republican or Democrat? Millions of people are presented with these two options every day through thousands of channels, such as news broadcasts, internet or in the public. The presenters of the two options "Republican or Democrat", do not give the audience a choice in the general narrative, everyone is either Republican, or they are Democrat. So as people get used to hearing the narrative, they pick one of the options, then defend it while disliking the other.

More option-trap examples:

Labour or Tory(In British Politics)
Conservative or Liberal
Rich or Poor
Peace or War

These option-traps are just some that people are constantly being exposed to, and so somehow they feel obliged to pick one or the other.
A salesman at this store nearly got me into an option-trap by asking me if I wanted the red one or the blue one!

The news in America sometimes catches me out with the Republican or Democrat option-trap!

I was thinking about whether I was conservative or liberal, and then I remembered that "consertive or liberal "is an option-trap so I forgot about it .
by ItHappenedSlowlyButSurely September 20, 2017
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Trap Hoez

Loud ratchet thick girls from the hood. word comes from artist C.A.$.H. Montana song, Trap Hoez released in 2019.
I love trap Hoez classy bitches make me nervous.

- C.A.$.H. Montana
by C.A.$.H. Montana November 7, 2019
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Gas Trap

When you fart in a car and roll up and lock the windows so your companion is forced to smell it.
He had to be rushed to the hospital after suffering complications from a Gas Trap. Paramedics say the perpetrator ate Taco Bell.
by Oh my God, they Killed Kenny! October 13, 2016
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Darwin Trap

1. A Darwin Trap is an obvious -hazard with appropriate signage -that can be avoided easily, causing no harm or inconvenience and yet somehow, some poor idiot inevitably gets trapped, hurt, killed, or maimed by the aforementioned obstacle, complementing Darwin's theory of evolution "only the strong survive"

2. A social economic state in which Business needs constant constant growth to appease stockholders, which inevitably screws up the economy because there is only so much business market to go around.
A manhole with no cover surrounded by barricades, flashing lights, and danger signs indicating there is a danger, an obvious Darwin Trap. Well cautioned Idiot gets stuck, hurt or killed from entering the "no fly zone", usually making the local 8'oclock news.
by Fukn Meat Head April 21, 2013
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Flap Trap

When you go to the store, and see several people, but you can’t escape talking to them and get stuck talking for a long period.
by Humble Goose November 26, 2018
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status trap

a Facebook or Myspace status that grabs people's attention because of its absurdity and/or humor, forcing them to comment on it or like it.
when Matt placed a status trap of "Am I fat if I bring a box of girl scout cookies to the bathroom with me." he got 6 likes and 10 comments.
by loopus November 8, 2010
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stench trap

Ray's mom has a stench trap
by rayWALLY'sDAD February 19, 2009
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