trap house

Or trap·house

[trap hous]

noun

1. Slang.,  a place where illicit drugs are bought, sold, or used.

2. a shelter from which the clay pigeons are released in trapshooting.

Word History and Origins

Origin of trap house¹

First recorded in 1940–45 (trapshooting shelter); and in 2005–10 (place to buy drugs, with reference to drugs as an inescapable “trap”); trap ¹ ( def. ) + house ( def. )

Example Sentences

Mamdani also chopped it up on the venerable bro-socialist media brand Chapo Trap House, the eternally viral SubwayTakes TikTok show, and Hot 97’s morning salon The Breakfast Club.

From Slate

The most successful was the podcast Chapo Trap House, founded by three Bernie backers who were notoriously unencumbered by the eggshells-walking purity promulgated by establishment Democrats.

From Slate

Felix Biederman, a friend of Piker’s and one of the hosts of the notoriously ribald leftist podcast Chapo Trap House, compared his influence to something like the Daily Show’s cultural apex—which, tellingly, occurred when the Democratic Party was adrift following Bush’s defeat of Kerry in 2004.

From Slate

San Diego County prosecutors charged seven people in 2022 with operating a trap house in the Encanto neighborhood for Ayala.

From Los Angeles Times

The affidavit says Miller and Jones frequently traveled to Phoenix to purchase the pills, then shipped them to a “trap house” in Sacramento used to store the drugs, which were then sold in Sacramento or shipped to customers nationwide.

From Seattle Times