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English

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English Wikipedia has an article on:booby trapWikipedia

Etymology

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From booby (“dunce, idiot”).

Pronunciation

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• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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booby trap (plural booby traps)

1. (military) An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.
2. A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.
3. (by extension) An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.

Related terms

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• boobytrap

Translations

[edit] antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object

Albanian: please add this translation if you can Arabic: شَرَك m (šarak), فَخّ m (faḵḵ) Armenian: ական-ծուղակ (hy) (akan-cuġak) Belarusian: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 餌雷 / 饵雷 (zh) (ěrléi) Dutch: boobytrap (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: please add this translation if you can Finnish: ansa (fi) French: piège (fr) m, objet piégé (fr) m Georgian: სატყუარა ნაღმი (saṭq̇uara naɣmi), დაფარული საფრთხე (daparuli saprtxe) German: Sprengfalle (de) f, versteckte Sprengladung f Hebrew: מלכודת f (malkódet), מוקש (he) m (mokésh) Hungarian: (please verify) meglepő akna, rejtett/álcázott bomba/csapda/akadály Icelandic: sprengjugildra f Italian: trabocchetto (it) m Japanese: ブービートラップ (būbī torappu) Latvian: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Norman: attrape-nigaud m Persian: دام انفجاری Polish: mina pułapka f Portuguese: armadilha (pt) f Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: ми́на-лову́шка (ru) f (mína-lovúška) Slovak: please add this translation if you can Swedish: försåtminering c Tamil: சூழ்ச்சிப் பொறி (cūḻccip poṟi) Turkish: bubi tuzağı (tr) Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can Vietnamese: bẫy mìn

traditional animal trap

German: Tierfalle f Khiamniungan Naga: vāhtèu

an unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall — see pitfall,‎ trap

See also

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• canary trap
• honeypot
• IED

References

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• (practical joke): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

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