Loaded question

Etymology

Also called the complex question or, in Latin, "plurium interrogationum," "of many questions" — one question smuggling in a second, unasked one. The classic example, "Have you stopped beating your wife?," presumes you were beating her. "Loaded" evokes a weapon primed before it is fired.

noun phrase · /LOH-did KWES-chun/
A question that presumes an unproven or damaging assumption, so any direct answer concedes it.
What it names
Catching it lets you reject the hidden premise instead of getting trapped into confirming it.
Example
"Why are you so opposed to keeping children safe?" is a loaded question — it assumes an opposition never established.
Related idea
Like a false dichotomy, it constrains the reply, but through a buried assumption rather than a forced pair of options.