Talk:trap car

RFV discussion: January–March 2024
Rfv-sense

"A passenger vehicle used for drug smuggling that is equipped with sophisticated mechanistic designs".


 * Definition has been revised (not by me). It more-or-less conforms to a definition at NetLingo. It still needs citations. DCDuring (talk) 15:21, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

cited Kiwima (talk) 21:58, 20 January 2024 (UTC)


 * In this case, I guess aspects like "has hidden stash spots" makes this idiomatic, but I would just note that trap is productively applied to anything used for drug production or transport or sale, e.g. people have trap phones, trap houses, ... - -sche (discuss) 07:29, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * What expression started the use of trap in this way, ie, the AAVE drug sense? From what sense (etymology?) of trap is it derived? DCDuring (talk) 16:22, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Surely the idea is that if you live in the ghetto it’s hard to move out, so you’re trapped. Many of the more stereotypical of the people who live in the ghetto (the ‘trap’) deal drugs, which then leads to a drug car being a ‘trap car’ and so on. Overlordnat1 (talk) 22:31, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Indeed, we have a sense under of "An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime". Kiwima (talk) 23:02, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I know, I added that sense myself in fact a while ago. Overlordnat1 (talk) 08:37, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
 * I was trying to ask about the drug-related sense, which should not be too simply connected to the "ghetto" sense. DCDuring (talk) 18:27, 22 January 2024 (UTC)


 * RFV-passed. - -sche (discuss) 05:05, 25 March 2024 (UTC)