Thesaurus results for BOOBY-TRAPPED

booby-trapped

verb

Definition of booby-trapped next

past tense of booby-trap

as in mined

to place hidden explosive devices in or under booby-trapped the field bordering the army's camp

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Recent Examples of booby-trapped So what is a modernist like Mayer, who made such cool craft of ancient stuff 20 years ago with Spring Awakening, to do with something as hokey and booby-trapped as Chess? —

Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019

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So how heavily mined is the Strait of Hormuz?

— CBS News, CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026
Conventional warfare, in which bombs are dropped, shipping channels are mined, and the Geneva Conventions apply more broadly, tends to be time-limited (even if the conflict endures for a long period of time).

— Sue Halpern, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026