The difference between Gob and Trap
When used as nouns, gob means a lump of soft or sticky material, whereas trap means a machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
When used as verbs, gob means to gather into a lump, whereas trap means to physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
check bellow for the other definitions of Gob and Trap
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Gob as a noun (countable):
A lump of soft or sticky material.
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Gob as a noun (countable, British, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, slang):
The mouth.
Examples:
"He′s always stuffing his gob with fast food."
"Oi, you, shut your gob!"
"She's got such a gob on her – she′s always gossiping about someone or other."
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, slang):
Saliva or phlegm.
Examples:
"He spat a big ball of gob on to the pavement."
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Gob as a noun (US, military, slang):
A sailor.
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Gob as a noun (uncountable, mining):
Waste material in old mine workings, goaf.
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Gob as a noun (US, regional):
A whoopee pie.
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Gob as a verb:
To gather into a lump.
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Gob as a verb:
To spit, especially to spit phlegm.
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Gob as a verb (mining, intransitive):
To pack away waste material in order to support the walls of the mine.
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Trap as a noun:
A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.
Examples:
"I put down some traps in my apartment to try and deal with the mouse problem."
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Trap as a noun:
A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.
Examples:
"Unfortunately she fell into the trap of confusing biology with destiny."
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Trap as a noun:
A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.
Examples:
"Close the trap, would you, before someone falls and breaks their neck."
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Trap as a noun:
A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball
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Trap as a noun:
The game of trapball itself.
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Trap as a noun:
Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.
Examples:
"They shot out of the school gates like greyhounds out of the trap."
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Trap as a noun:
A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.
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Trap as a noun:
A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.
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Trap as a noun (historical):
A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.
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Trap as a noun (slang):
A person's mouth.
Examples:
"Keep your trap shut''."
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Trap as a noun (in the plural):
Belongings.
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Trap as a noun (slang):
A cubicle (in a public toilet).
Examples:
"I've just laid a cable in trap 2 so I'd give it 5 minutes if I were you."
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Trap as a noun (sports):
Trapshooting.
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Trap as a noun (computing):
An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.
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Trap as a noun (Australia, slang, historical):
A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.
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Trap as a noun (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English):
A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.
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Trap as a noun:
A kind of movable stepladder.
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Trap as a noun (slang, informal, chiefly, derogatory, offensive):
A non-op trans woman or (femininely dressed) transvestite.
Examples:
"rfquotek Knight"
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Trap as a noun (slang, informal, sometimes considered, _, offensive):
A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's textual gender.
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Trap as a noun (music, uncountable):
A fusion genre of hip-hop and electronic music.
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Trap as a verb (transitive):
To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.
Examples:
"to trap foxes"
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Trap as a verb (transitive):
To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.
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Trap as a verb (transitive):
To provide with a trap.
Examples:
"to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe"
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Trap as a verb (intransitive):
To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game
Examples:
"trap for beaver"
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Trap as a verb (intransitive):
To leave suddenly, to flee.
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Trap as a verb (US, slang, informal, African American Vernacular English, intransitive):
To sell narcotics, especially in a public area.
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Trap as a verb (computing, intransitive):
To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.
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Trap as a noun:
A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-volcanic, non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.
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Trap as a verb:
To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).
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Trap as a noun (slang, bodybuilding):
The trapezius muscle.