Trap

An effeminate cisgender man or boy who dresses like a woman to attract men; a crossdresser.

If is often used as a slur against trans women (MtF) and as a type of erasure

Lady Foppington: "What are Traps?...(*flips open a fan*) And be they gay?

Guy 1: liking traps is gay cuz you're a man
Guy 2: liking traps isnt gay cuz if you're if your a man who's into women, you're into femininity and traps present as feminine

by NotKeenEem August 17, 2021

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oopsy doopsy u got trapped in a trappy trap from Trapland.

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A trap is a term referring to an anime character who represents themselves both emotionally and physically as a different gender than they actually are. This can be said for any gender but it is most commonly used to describe a male character who dresses and is represented in a very feminine way. Even to the extreme where people in that show or the audience may mistake or assume the character to be a woman, only until its is specifically revealed to be wrong. Some people in the anime community have found this term to be offensive or even transphobic since the term is mostly used in a negative light. It is also easy for people to accuse characters of being traps, even if the a character is only doing something minor such as crossdressing, which most of the time does not fit the term since you are already known up front that they are not the gender they are presented as. So make sure when your using the phase it fits this definition!

Show: *Reveals character to be a different gender that they are represented as*
Audience: It's a trap!

by mysticfr0g April 10, 2022

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