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Meaning of booby-trap

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

booby-trap

noun

Definitions

  1. An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.

  2. A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.

  3. (by extension) An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.

verb

Definitions

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