"radar trap" meaning in English

See radar trap in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: radar traps [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} radar trap (plural radar traps)
  1. A roadside location, manned by police or similar officials, where a device that emits a radar beam is used to monitor the speeds of motor vehicles in order to apprehend motorists in violation of the speed limit. Categories (topical): Law enforcement Related terms: radar detector, radar gun
    Sense id: en-radar_trap-en-noun-Kfd52pBH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Radar

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for radar trap meaning in English (1.9kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "radar traps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "radar trap (plural radar traps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Law enforcement",
          "orig": "en:Law enforcement",
          "parents": [
            "Crime prevention",
            "Emergency services",
            "Law",
            "Crime",
            "Public safety",
            "Justice",
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Public administration",
            "Security",
            "All topics",
            "Government",
            "Fundamental",
            "Politics"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Radar",
          "orig": "en:Radar",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956 September 10, “Miscellany”, in Time",
          "text": "In Rochester, after Kenneth Butters complained about fast driving along Woodbine Avenue, police set up a radar trap and nabbed five speeders, including Butters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 27, Dylan Welch, “Shots fired at bus and police”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2013-06-03",
          "text": "He had been allegedly clocked by a mobile radar trap on the M2 at Winston Hills at 120kmh in a 100kmh zone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A roadside location, manned by police or similar officials, where a device that emits a radar beam is used to monitor the speeds of motor vehicles in order to apprehend motorists in violation of the speed limit."
      ],
      "id": "en-radar_trap-en-noun-Kfd52pBH",
      "links": [
        [
          "roadside",
          "roadside"
        ],
        [
          "police",
          "police"
        ],
        [
          "emit",
          "emit"
        ],
        [
          "monitor",
          "monitor"
        ],
        [
          "motor vehicle",
          "motor vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ],
        [
          "speed limit",
          "speed limit"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "radar detector"
        },
        {
          "word": "radar gun"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "radar trap"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "radar traps",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "radar trap (plural radar traps)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "radar detector"
    },
    {
      "word": "radar gun"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Law enforcement",
        "en:Radar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1956 September 10, “Miscellany”, in Time",
          "text": "In Rochester, after Kenneth Butters complained about fast driving along Woodbine Avenue, police set up a radar trap and nabbed five speeders, including Butters.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006 December 27, Dylan Welch, “Shots fired at bus and police”, in Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, retrieved 2013-06-03",
          "text": "He had been allegedly clocked by a mobile radar trap on the M2 at Winston Hills at 120kmh in a 100kmh zone.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A roadside location, manned by police or similar officials, where a device that emits a radar beam is used to monitor the speeds of motor vehicles in order to apprehend motorists in violation of the speed limit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "roadside",
          "roadside"
        ],
        [
          "police",
          "police"
        ],
        [
          "emit",
          "emit"
        ],
        [
          "monitor",
          "monitor"
        ],
        [
          "motor vehicle",
          "motor vehicle"
        ],
        [
          "apprehend",
          "apprehend"
        ],
        [
          "speed limit",
          "speed limit"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "radar trap"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.