booby-trap

See also: boobytrap and booby trap

English

Noun

booby-trap (plural booby-traps)

1. Alternative spelling of booby trap

Verb

booby-trap (third-person singular simple present booby-traps, present participle booby-trapping, simple past and past participle booby-trapped)

1. (transitive) To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.
   • 2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:

     Transport for London and the RMT union are united in their condemnation of anti-COVID vaccination extremists who are booby-trapping posters on the London Underground and other stations with razor blades.

   • 2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Israeli soldiers who combed slowly through the village on Tuesday warned visiting journalists to stay out of homes that had not been cleared, warning they could be booby-trapped with explosives.