booby-trap
See also: boobytrap and booby trap
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]booby-trap (plural booby-traps)
- Alternative spelling of booby trap
Verb
[edit]booby-trap (third-person singular simple present booby-traps, present participle booby-trapping, simple past and past participle booby-trapped)
- (transitive) To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.
- 2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:
- 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.
- 2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian[1]:
- 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.