booby trap
Example Sentences
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On 4 August, booby trap bomb was found under a soldier's car in Bangor.
From BBC
As a boy growing up in Tebessa, he fiddled with a booby trap which exploded in his face.
From BBC
He described a summer for his crews of breathing in burned poison oak, twisting ankles in booby traps, and nearly falling into some of the deep, open latrines.
From Los Angeles Times
“There are lots of booby traps that could lie in wait,” Poland says.
From Scientific American
Even if the pillar isn’t dangerous, it may be a booby trap: a joke, cosmic or otherwise, at our expense.
From New York Times
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