snare
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- n something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
it was all a snare and delusion - n a small drum with two heads and a snare stretched across the lower head
- n a surgical instrument consisting of wire hoop that can be drawn tight around the base of polyps or small tumors to sever them; used especially in body cavities
- n strings stretched across the lower head of a snare drum; they make a rattling sound when the drum is hit
- n a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a slip noose
- v catch in or as if in a trap
- v entice and trap
The car salesman had snared three potential customers
- Once upon a time, Brer B'ar was induced to take Brer Rabbit's place in a snare by the promise that he would thus make $1 a minute.
- But when she failed to snare a Metropolitan contract, Maggie Teyte shrewdly decided that her clear-toned, brilliantly controlled voice was better suited to chamber singing than to .
- As her taut band rips away at their instruments, Ida Maria turns her lyrics into epic drama; singing the word "God" in the chorus, she times the g to the crash of the snare and the .