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booby trap n. a device set up to be triggered to harm or kill anyone entering the trap, such as a shot gun which will go off if a room is entered, or dynamite which will explode if the ignition key on an auto is turned. If a person sets up such a trap to protect his/her property he/she will be liable for any injury or death even to an unwanted intruder such as a burglar. Setting a booby trap is also a crime. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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On occasion, women and children set mines and boobytraps, or engaged in other warlike actions against Americans. Both men agreed that campaign-finance reform and the growth of entitlement spending were so fraught with political boobytraps that neither party, was likely to tackle them. |
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