Roach Motel
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Roach Motel is an American brand of a roach bait device designed to catch cockroaches. Although the term is the subject of a trademark registration by the insect control brand Black Flag, the phrase roach motel has come to be used as a reference to all traps that use a scent or other form of bait to lure cockroaches into a compartment in which a sticky substance causes them to become trapped. Intr
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Roach Motel is an American brand of a roach bait device designed to catch cockroaches. Although the term is the subject of a trademark registration by the insect control brand Black Flag, the phrase r
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Originally refers to a cockroach trap that is easy to enter but hard to exit; extended to refer to lock-in traps in product design or contracts that are easy to enter but difficult to leave.
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