booby-trap

verb

To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.

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Meanings

nounbooby-trap (plural booby-traps)

plural booby-traps

  1. alternativeAlternative form of booby trap.
verbbooby-trap (third-person singular simple present booby-traps, present participle booby-trapping, simple past and past participle booby-trapped)

present singular third person booby-traps · participle present booby-trapping · participle past booby-trapped · past booby-trapped

  1. transitiveTo set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.

    Israeli soldiers who combed slowly through the village on Tuesday warned visiting journalists to stay out of homes that had not been cleared, warning they could be booby-trapped with explosives.

    2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian
    1 more example

    Transport for London and the RMT union are united in their condemnation of anti-COVID vaccination extremists who are booby-trapping posters on the London Underground and other stations with razor blades.

    2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11
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APA

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Chicago

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