NOUN
- an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
- an unforeseen or unexpected or surprising difficulty
How To Use booby trap In A Sentence
- Mr. Rogers has sidestepped this potential aesthetic booby trap by installing everything in the 19th-century manner — paintings "skied" on the walls, and sculpture filling the gallery as it would have been seen in its own day — a nonjudgmental approach that simply treats the work as part of our art and cultural history. The MFA's New Art of the Americas Wing . . .
- When it comes to relationships, birthday presents are booby traps wrapped in red ribbons. Times, Sunday Times
- Nobody went near the abandoned car in case it was a booby trap.
- Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
- He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
- US intelligence estimates there are about 3,000 insurgents dug in behind defences and booby traps in the city of about 300,000 people.
- We'd made big booby traps on the stairs, big holes hidden in the steps. STUART: A Life Backwards
- He had been accused of rigging up a booby trap to set the house on fire as she slept to collect 190,000 insurance. The Sun
- The documents also contained warnings about booby trap devices. Times, Sunday Times
- Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
