Bumtrap

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A bailiff. obsolete, rare, slang

    "The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey."

Example

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"The noble bumtrap, blind and deaf to every circumstance of distress, greatly rises above all the motives to humanity, and into the hands of the gaoler resolves to deliver his miserable prey."

Etymology

From bum + trap.

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