trap street

plural trap streets

1. cartographyA fictitious or inaccurately represented street on a map, inserted as a means of detecting plagiarism.

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   Trap streets are used as a weapon in corporate warfare, but in certain circumstances, trap streets can be used to fight a different kind of battle. Molly Metropolis certainly understood the importance of trap streets, and as she constructed her map of real train lines and paper ones, she included traps of her own.

   2015, Catie Disabato, The Ghost Network, Melville House, →ISBN