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Easy opportunity to bag stray reptile (8)

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I believe the answer is:

terrapin

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'reptile' is the definition.
(terrapin is a kind of reptile)

'easy opportunity to bag stray' is the wordplay.
'easy opportunity' becomes 'tapin' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'to bag' is an insertion indicator.
'stray' becomes 'err' (to err is to stray or go wrong).
'tapin' placed around 'err' is 'TERRAPIN'.

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(Other definitions for terrapin that I've seen before include "Little turtle" , "Small freshwater turtle" , "Partner I found for freshwater tortoise" , "Hardback" , "freshwater creature" .)

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