what does steel trap mean?
STEEL TRAP as NOUN
- Meaning
- an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well known sharpness of steel traps)
Usage Example(s)
- he’’s as sharp as a steel trap
- a mind like a steel trap
Hypernyms(s) steel trap is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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