The room's tight security includes a biometric "mantrap" or highly sophisticated double door, secured with retinal and fingerprint scanners. From Wordnik.com. [June 2006] Reference
He placed a pencil between the strips and slid it along to the end, between the two jagged steel jaws of the "mantrap", which were each connected to three tiny pistons. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
The answer to the acrostic is "mantrap"; the missing rhyme is "mishap.". From Wordnik.com. [Marge Askinforit] Reference
But don't assume mantrap Brenda has the upper hand here. From Wordnik.com. [General Hospital's Laura Wright Previews the Carly-Brenda Smack Down] Reference
I wonder what she's going to feel like when she stops being a "diminutive mantrap"?. From Wordnik.com. [December 2009] Reference
It read it and approved the bone structure and the lock on the first door of the mantrap snapped open. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
A glass wall and a mantrap separated the semicircular vault room from the rest of Beverly Hills Safe & Lock. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
And the greatest laugh line in that play is where one character accuses another of being a sockdolagizing old mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [America In So Many Words] Reference
The four of them moved into the tiny mantrap and Avery pushed a set of numbers on the combination lock on the second door. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
When he swung clear Fors made fast the rope and hurried back to pull the limp body away from the edge of the fiendish mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak 2250 AD]
Using his hand again like a model pointing out prizes on a game show, Grant indicated a boxlike device beside the door to the mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
Cogs whirr, wires clunk and leering unpleasantness ensues as an ex-con breaks into a house which has been rigged up as a giant mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Kermode's DVD round-up] Reference
The wires led along the inside edge of one strip, to a complex but nasty-looking arrangement at the other end, reminiscent of a mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [Country of the Blind]
And that was a line, incredible as it may seem, ` You sockdolagizing old mantrap, 'that was the line that brought down the house and that John. From Wordnik.com. [America In So Many Words] Reference
Huge, sand-colored, and insectlike, it scrabbled at the bottom of a funneling pit, its ragged jaws opening like a crab's claw, like a Ner-akan mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
You never seen me in the mantrap with a married highlander, says I. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Anyway, tell us all about your newest mantrap or secret storage space. From Wordnik.com. [Homeland Stupidity] Reference
Suddenly you remember the fatal mantrap you leapt over just a minute ago. From Wordnik.com. [Pocket-lint] Reference
Big hole down there filled up and the bridge that was just a mantrap new floored!. From Wordnik.com. [The Long Roll] Reference
` Always seems to me, 'said Wemmick, ` as if he had set a mantrap and was watching it. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
I saw a woman who had a mind like a mantrap, who could recall facts like the kids I know can Google. From Wordnik.com. [Progressive U - The new media voice for students] Reference
Being caught thus by one foot in Roosevelt's mantrap, he quickly proceeded to be caught by the other. From Wordnik.com. [Theodore Roosevelt An Intimate Biography]
Yet Fabiola believes her mother’s reputation as a mantrap is undeserved. From Wordnik.com. [The Mansion Trap] Reference
Okay, I think as I quick-change into jeans, okay, with John Wathne’s pictures of that mantrap cellar clear in front of my eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side of Dark] Reference
Do you bake ? you lil `mantrap you. From Wordnik.com. [Darth Vader celebrates the season « raincoaster] Reference
He followed Grant into the mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
The mantrap alert buzzed from overhead. From Wordnik.com. ['The Scarecrow'] Reference
Just like the hand X ray and the mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Echo]
She wants to turn me into some kind of mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Pull of the Moon]
"Always seems to me," said Wemmick, "as if he had set a mantrap and was watching it. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations]
When my knee is feeling better (still sore after falling down a mantrap near to home, installed by that lovely company. From Wordnik.com. [The Sietch Blog] Reference
She was a mantrap. From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
The mantrap was occupying his thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak 2250 AD]
The old mantrap has got married at these years!. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Caught in a mantrap?. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Digg] Reference
A Hobart restaurant has had its mantrap pilfered. From Wordnik.com. [National Nine News] Reference
Bus, just as sure as hell's a mantrap I ". From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Patrol]
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