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- adjective of a harmless object having a hidden
booby trap - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
boobytrap .
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Examples
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Athens also banned outbound mail after 13 booby-trapped parcels were found in Greece and around Europe.
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The 48-hour ban on outbound mail comes after almost a dozen booby-trapped parcels were discovered in Greece and around Europe since Monday, including mail bombs targeting French and Italian leaders and one that reached the office of German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Greece Halts Mail, Hunts Bomb Suspects Nick Skrekas 2010
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The soldiers had ordered the boy to open bags they suspected had been booby-trapped.
For Israeli army, tests of accountability Joel Greenberg 2010
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During my youth, we were constantly running away from the shelling, bombing, booby-trapped cars and assassinations that the Syrian Army was perpetrating in Lebanon against the Christian population.
Assad Has No Friend in Lebanon's Christians Karim Anton Souaid 2011
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The soldiers had ordered the boy to open bags they suspected had been booby-trapped.
For Israeli army, tests of accountability Joel Greenberg 2010
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Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search fordeadly chemical agentsbut stumble instead upon anelaborate cover-upthat inverts the purpose of theirmission.
6 Movie Clips and Behind the Scenes Footage from GREEN ZONE Starring Matt Damon – Collider.com 2010
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The ability to laugh when my automatic reflexes urge me to scream or cry or hide or run away to Las Vegas helps me stay relatively sane as I stumble along the unmarked booby-trapped paths of parenthood.
Len Filppu: Parental Survival Tip # 1: Develop Mirth at Birth Len Filppu 2011
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Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Blood mingled with broken glass on the ground where a booby-trapped motorcycle exploded in Sadr City.
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Nicholas Fabian was having affair with colleague and booby-trapped his pregnant wife's car, with her son also in vehicle
Ex-soldier found guilty of trying to murder wife with grenade 2011
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Then, instead of occupying the outpost, Gul said the Taliban booby-trapped it with bombs.
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