trapeze
truh peez
- n a swing used by circus acrobats
- If you are a trapeze artist, chances are that your son will be a trapeze artist.
- Most often it is employed to generate vertigo, as when a trapeze artist dangles above a crowd, or when two men have a highball-to-highball confrontation with a swiveling stripper.
- Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering the plane through the T into the rushing airstream below the Akron's belly.