Why is it called a trap house?

Trap House Definition: According to the Urban Dictionary, the term traphouse was, “Originally used to describe a crack house in a shady neighborhood…” It's basically a drug dealer's (i.e., trap star or trap lord) place of business—or a form of a market whereby individuals sell, buy, and abuse drugs.
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What is a trap house in slang?

a place, especially an empty house, where illegal drugs are sold: She was selling drugs in a trap house. The gangs use abandoned houses - known as trap houses - for illegal gambling, drugs, and prostitution. More examples.
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Where did trap house originated?

Trap houses have been glamorized by trap music, a rap genre that originated in the South in the 1990s. Trap rap is going mainstream: One rapper in Atlanta opened a clothing store decorated to look like a trap house, with crack — cooking equipment.
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Is a trap house a drug house?

A drug house (also called a trap house) is a residence used in the illegal drug trade. Drug houses shelter drug users and provide a place for drug dealers to supply them. Drug houses can also be used as laboratories to synthesize (cook) drugs, or cache ingredients and product.
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What's the difference between a trap house and a crack house?

Trap HOuses Vs.

A crack house can be any house where people do drugs, including very standard suburban homes. A trap house implies a certain sense of community that is not associated with crack houses. Drug dealers come together in these abandoned houses with plans to produce/sell/store their products.
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What is Bando in slang?

Bando, American-English slang for an abandoned house which is often used as a drug house.
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What is a Bando in rap?

Bando means an abandoned trap house.

A bando is used to refer to a trap house or crack house in the hood where narcotics is being produced or sold. The term “Bando” has been used by Future, J. Cole, Nicki Minaj, Lil Uzi Vert, Desiigner, Young Thug, Lil Pump, YFN Lucci and many more rappers.
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What's a trap queen in slang?

Originating in drug slang, a trap queen is a strong, loyal woman, often used in hip-hop and black culture.
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What is an Airbnb trap house?

A TikToker recently came under fire for posting a video claiming the Dallas Airbnb she was staying at was a “trap house” or residence known to sell illegal drugs. The video, which was posted by Jazlyn Soler (user @jazmarisol1), shows a sparsely decorated Airbnb that Jazlyn claims to have rented for $20.
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What's a fancy word for trap?

Some common synonyms of trap are bag, capture, catch, ensnare, entrap, and snare. While all these words mean "to come to possess or control by or as if by seizing," trap, snare, entrap, ensnare imply seizing by some device that holds the one caught at the mercy of the captor.
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What is the pink trap house in Atlanta?

The Pink Trap House hosted art galleries, paint-and-sip events and church services. At one time, it was turned into a free HIV testing center. “It was a hell of a marketing technique while it was there,” Rohrig said. READ | A brief history of celebs asking Atlanta cops: 'Do you know who I am?'
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What is a Mazza?

noun. bat [noun] a shaped piece of wood etc for striking the ball in cricket, baseball, table-tennis etc. club [noun] a bat or stick used in certain games (especially golf) iron [noun] a type of golf-club.
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What is a Rambo?

noun, plural Ram·bos. a fanatically militant or violently aggressive person.
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What does OJ mean in drill?

OJ – 'on job', productive and successful in street activities.
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Why do people go to trap houses?

Part of the drug problem in American society can be traced to the illegal drug dealers on the ground—and more specifically, the trap house. By recruiting new users and offering a constant supply of drugs, trap houses are directly (or indirectly) involved in the current drug overdose epidemic.
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How do drug dealers hide money?

Drug dealers hide their profits by flushing them through the vast global financial market, and use the laundered cash to underwrite their trafficking.
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What do different colored porch lights mean drug dealers use?

They shouldn't be out there selling drugs.” The system is a combination of different colored lights and Morse-code-like flashes. “Red means the police are coming, blue is for cocaine, and green is for weed,” says one Virginia man, a former drug dealer who now buys drugs there.
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What is crack den?

Meaning of crack den in English

a house or other building where crack (= a form of the illegal drug cocaine that can be smoked) is sold, bought, and used: He was eventually arrested when police found him running a crack den in Acton.
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What does Bandolero mean?

a highwayman; a robber.
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What is a Bando baby?

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Bando Baby is a fast-rising streetwear brand that has reached the likes of rappers Giggs, Sneakbo, Ard Adz, Milly 95, Stickz and more. Being a Bando Baby means the odds were against us since birth, so we must do whatever it takes to make it!
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Who came up with the trap museum?

Founded by Atlanta rapper and actor T.I., one of trap music's forefathers, the museum showcases his recreated closet, featuring clothes, assault rifles, and his 2008 Grammy for Best Rap Performance, which helped catapult him and trap music to international acclaim.
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How old do you have to be to go in the trap museum?

The museum is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday and restricted to adults 18 and up after 8 p.m., but the Escape Room is now open during the week to accommodate high demand.
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What happened to 2 Chainz pink trap house?

It's a temporary site that allowed 2 Chainz to partner with the Fulton County Board of Health, Atlanta AIDS and Test Atlanta. Besides the Pink Trap House being turned into a temporary site for HIV testing, on Sunday the doors of the church were open as it was turned into “trap church.”
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