speed trap
noun
: a stretch of road policed by often concealed officers or devices (such as radar) so as to catch speeders
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web While navigation apps such as Waze can reduce your chances of being caught in a speed trap, radar detectors have never been more effective at sniffing out Smokey. 
K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 22 June 2022 The New York Times in 1975 wrote of the legendary Alabama speed trap town of Fruithurst as if aggressive policing was a Southern surety. John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022 Everyone knows the speed trap: a sudden speed-limit drop, often poorly marked, with police waiting to pounce and local courts ready to assess fines for the local treasury. Penny J. White And Glenn Harlan Reynolds, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022 Another woman, Emily Sierra, emailed AL.com to say she was pulled over in Brookside three years ago for a single flash of her lights to warn oncoming traffic about a speed trap. John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2022 Along the way, Google Maps alerted me to a few speed trap locations set up along a stretch of highway in Michigan, as evidenced below. Yoni Heisler, BGR, 2 Jan. 2022 This led to heroes like police officer J.C. Williams, who may have devised the region’s first speed trap. Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2021 Linndale -- which is notorious as a speed trap -- is just 0.07 square miles. Cameron Fields, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021 Mantua has had a reputation as a speed trap, even spurring a state senator in 2016 to introduce legislation capping how much money towns could make from speeding fines. The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021 See More
K.c. Colwell, Car and Driver, 22 June 2022 The New York Times in 1975 wrote of the legendary Alabama speed trap town of Fruithurst as if aggressive policing was a Southern surety. John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 9 Feb. 2022 Everyone knows the speed trap: a sudden speed-limit drop, often poorly marked, with police waiting to pounce and local courts ready to assess fines for the local treasury. Penny J. White And Glenn Harlan Reynolds, WSJ, 21 Feb. 2022 Another woman, Emily Sierra, emailed AL.com to say she was pulled over in Brookside three years ago for a single flash of her lights to warn oncoming traffic about a speed trap. John Archibald | Jarchibald@al.com, al, 27 Jan. 2022 Along the way, Google Maps alerted me to a few speed trap locations set up along a stretch of highway in Michigan, as evidenced below. Yoni Heisler, BGR, 2 Jan. 2022 This led to heroes like police officer J.C. Williams, who may have devised the region’s first speed trap. Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, 10 Oct. 2021 Linndale -- which is notorious as a speed trap -- is just 0.07 square miles. Cameron Fields, cleveland, 17 Sep. 2021 Mantua has had a reputation as a speed trap, even spurring a state senator in 2016 to introduce legislation capping how much money towns could make from speeding fines. The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Apr. 2021 See More Word History
First Known Use
1925, in the meaning defined above