Etymology

springtrap

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The story

From Springtrap, the antagonist of the point-and-click survival horror video game Five Nights at Freddy's 3 (2015); Springtrap is an animatronic suit containing the mummified corpse of a man, William Afton, who was trapped and killed by the suit's spring locks due to a mechanical failure (malfunction).

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