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TRAPEZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does trapeze mean?
• TRAPEZE (noun)
The noun TRAPEZE has 1 sense:
1. a swing used by circus acrobats
Familiarity information: TRAPEZE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A swing used by circus acrobats
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("trapeze" is a kind of...):
swing (mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth)
Context examples
Two are in South Africa now, an' another's on a whaling voyage, an' one's travellin' with a circus—he does trapeze work.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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