death trap

British  

noun

1. a building, vehicle, etc, that is considered very unsafe

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Example Sentences

Ogun declares her contempt for longboards — not to mention penny skateboards, which she says are a death trap.

From Los Angeles Times

With witty chapter titles such as “Don’t Be Upstaged by Your House” and “Unless You Have Deep Pockets, the Big City Is a Death Trap,” Ms. Nichols, an associate professor of classics at Georgetown University, guides us through a series of Roman writers with subjects as varied as interior decoration, new construction, infrastructure and real estate.

From The Wall Street Journal

Prosecutors told the trial that years of failings had turned the club into a death trap.

From BBC

You can’t accuse those who title “NOVA” episodes of burying the lede with “Ancient Desert Death Trap.”

From The Wall Street Journal

One of the more fascinating aspects of “Ancient Desert Death Trap” is the way this testing is done.

From The Wall Street Journal