TRAPPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trapper mean? 

• TRAPPER (noun)
  The noun TRAPPER has 1 sense:

1. someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)

  Familiarity information: TRAPPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRAPPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who sets traps for animals (usually to obtain their furs)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("trapper" is a kind of...):

hunter; huntsman (someone who hunts game)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "trapper"):

coureur de bois (a French Canadian trapper)

Derivation:

trap (catch in or as if in a trap)