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What is a deathtrap?

What is a deathtrap? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An extremely dangerous location, structure or device.
  2. A plot device where a villain in a story puts a hero in an elaborate dangerous situation for the purposes of attempting a sadistic murder.
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In building a car, do you use lightweight materials so that it is zippy, but a deathtrap in an accident?
I suddenly looked down on myself and thought it's so wrong that my own exercise yard was a deathtrap.
Another group wanted to create a safer way to cross the intersection at Ocean Parkway and Church Avenue, which the group called a deathtrap, saying that the lights change before pedestrians can clear the street.
Was it possible that face and eyes like those could have led him into a deathtrap!
He had given up hope that O'Malley or Allison would be able to break through and crack the deathtrap.
They have labelled it a deathtrap and say only prayers are stopping it falling down as it decays.

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