conibear

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noun

A kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.

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Meanings

conibear1

nounconibear (plural conibears)

plural conibears

  1. A kind of body-gripping trap designed to kill the trapped animal quickly.

    It was the killing of Cupcake, a border collie mix, in a conibear trap last winter that first spurred the anti-trapping campaign here.

    2008 April 30, Jim Robbins, “Montana Dog Owners Find Wild-Animal Traps Put Pets in Harm’s Way”, in New York Times

Conibear2

proper noun
  1. A surname.

Origin

Named after Frank Conibear, a Canadian who first constructed such a trap in 1957.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Carobine
Cite this entry
APA

conibear. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conibear

MLA

“conibear.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conibear. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “conibear,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/conibear.

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