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- adj. of a harmless object having a hidden booby trap
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of boobytrap.
Examples
“Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Blood mingled with broken glass on the ground where a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Sadr City.”
“The ability to laugh when my automatic reflexes urge me to scream or cry or hide or run away to Las Vegas helps me stay relatively sane as I stumble along the unmarked booby-trapped paths of parenthood.”
The Huffington Post: Len Filppu: Parental Survival Tip # 1: Develop Mirth at Birth
“Nicholas Fabian was having affair with colleague and booby-trapped his pregnant wife's car, with her son also in vehicle”
The Guardian: Ex-soldier found guilty of trying to murder wife with grenade
“Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search fordeadly chemical agentsbut stumble instead upon anelaborate cover-upthat inverts the purpose of theirmission.”
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“The soldiers had ordered the boy to open bags they suspected had been booby-trapped.”
The Washington Post: For Israeli army, tests of accountability
“Then, instead of occupying the outpost, Gul said the Taliban booby-trapped it with bombs.”
“During my youth, we were constantly running away from the shelling, bombing, booby-trapped cars and assassinations that the Syrian Army was perpetrating in Lebanon against the Christian population.”
The Wall Street Journal: Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians
“Athens also banned outbound mail after 13 booby-trapped parcels were found in Greece and around Europe.”
“The 48-hour ban on outbound mail comes after almost a dozen booby-trapped parcels were discovered in Greece and around Europe since Monday, including mail bombs targeting French and Italian leaders and one that reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.”
The Wall Street Journal: Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
“Greek police acted swiftly and on Tuesday, the day some booby-trapped packages were to be sent, arrested two suspects, aged 22 and 24, whom they say are linked to Greece's shadowy, far-left urban guerrilla group, Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei.”
The Wall Street Journal: Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects
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