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Because it looks like a 'circus trapeze'.

The suffix ' ---oid' means 'like'. So 'trapezoid' means 'trapeze like'.

A trapezium is a quadrilateral, consisting of two parallel lines, but of different length.

The connecting lines, to make it a quadrilateral are NOT parallel,

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