booby-trapとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

booby-trap (三人称単数 現在形 booby-traps, 現在分詞 booby-trapping, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

名詞

booby trap (複数形 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.

関連する語

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