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 Definitions of booby trap  [ˈbu bi]  

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Definition of 'booby trap' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) booby trap
a hidden bomb or mine that can be set off by an unsuspecting person who steps on it, touches a tripwire, or the like.

2.  booby trap
any hidden trap set for an unsuspecting person.

Etymology:  (1840–50)

Definition of 'booby trap' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) land mine, ground-emplaced mine, booby trap
an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over

2. (noun) pitfall, booby trap
an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
Definition of 'booby trap' Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms 

1.  booby trap
An explosive or nonexplosive device or other material, deliberately placed to cause casualties when an apparently harmless object is disturbed or a normally safe act is performed.
Translation of 'booby trap' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: a bomb hidden in an object which explodes when it is touched.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: fopmyn Arabic flag Arabic: فَخُّ، شَركٌ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: умело замаскирана бомба
Brazilian flag Brazilian: armadilha com bomba Czech flag Czech: nastražená výbušnina/bomb German flag German: eine Bombe
Danish flag Danish: minefælde Greek flag Greek: ναρκοπαγίδα Spanish flag Spanish: trampa explosiva, trampa
Estonian flag Estonian: peidetud lõhkekeha Farsi flag Farsi: دام انفجاری Finnish flag Finnish: piilopommi
French flag French: objet piégé Hebrew flag Hebrew: מִטעַן מְמוּלכָּד Hindi flag Hindi: चोरफंदा
Croatian flag Croatian: miniran predmet Hungarian flag Hungarian: (érintésre robbanó) bomba Indonesian flag Indonesian: bom tersembunyi
Italian flag Italian: (ordigno esplosivo, dall' Japanese flag Japanese: 偽装爆弾 Korean flag Korean: 위장 폭탄
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: padėta bomba Latvian flag Latvian: maskēts spridzeklis Malay flag Malay: bom tersembunyi
Dutch flag Dutch: booby-trap Norwegian flag Norwegian: minefelle Polish flag Polish: bomba pułapka
Persian flag Persian: دام انفجاری Pashto flag Pashto: چاودیدونکی دام Russian flag Russian: мина-ловушка
Slovak flag Slovak: nástražný systém Slovenian flag Slovenian: nastavljena bomba Serbian flag Serbian: mina iznenađenja
Swedish flag Swedish: minfälla, försåtligt dold Thai flag Thai: กับระเบิด Turkish flag Turkish: tuzak bomba
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 詭雷 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: міна-пастка Urdu flag Urdu: دھوکے سے کسی چیز مثلاً کھ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: bẫy mìn Chinese flag Chinese: 诡雷

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