"race out of the traps" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-race out of the traps.ogg [Australia] Forms: races out of the traps [present, singular, third-person], racing out of the traps [participle, present], raced out of the traps [participle, past], raced out of the traps [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=race out of the traps}} race out of the traps (third-person singular simple present races out of the traps, present participle racing out of the traps, simple past and past participle raced out of the traps)
  1. (idiomatic) To start something very quickly. Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: en-race_out_of_the_traps-en-verb-CJDkECnJ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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