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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
boobytrap .
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Examples
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Improvised explosive devices (IED), also called boobytraps, are similar to a land mine in that they usually lie in passive wait for a target.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Improvised explosive devices (IED), also called boobytraps, are similar to a land mine in that they usually lie in passive wait for a target.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Dutch had nothing more than a bow with arrows and boobytraps, and he did quite well.
How Would The Na’vi Of ‘Avatar’ Stack Up Against James Cameron’s Other Creatures? » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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The peels laid out like boobytraps, as in a minigame within a video game of a board game.
Captain Beefheart Alex Taitague 2011
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The text plants thousands of tiny boobytraps in your brain, none of them particularly powerful on their own, and then in the last pages, they all go off.
Archive 2010-06-01 2010
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Ericsson studied the rest of the door for any sign that it was wired, either with boobytraps or with alarm sensors, and then finally said, “I can do it.”
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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During the siege they transformed the theater, rhetorically and physically, into the same sort of urban battleground they knew so well from home -- complete with boobytraps and Islamist kamikaze slogans.
Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010
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Mr. Heger then sent my team in with diving equipment to search for any explosives, any boobytraps.
The Athena Project Brad Thor 2010
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During the siege they transformed the theater, rhetorically and physically, into the same sort of urban battleground they knew so well from home -- complete with boobytraps and Islamist kamikaze slogans.
Moscow Bombing: Literature Sheds Light On Problems In Russia 2010
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The text plants thousands of tiny boobytraps in your brain, none of them particularly powerful on their own, and then in the last pages, they all go off.
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