booby trap
Example Sentences
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The scene from 1981's Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Indiana Jones - played by Harrison Ford - outrunning a giant boulder triggered by a booby trap, before leaping to safety.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025
The soldiers passed a Russian military identification document, fluttering in the wind on the lawn of a house, but did not touch it to check the name, fearing a booby trap.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
And he must navigate a legislative jungle that his opponents are trying to booby trap with amendments that could wreck his path to Brexit.
From Reuters ● Oct. 18, 2019
Sweep her car for booby trap and swaddle her in bubble wrap, She's staying alive, stayin' alive.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019
Dine-ba-whoa-blehi, “man trap,” was our word for a booby trap.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
