Definitions
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- noun A sharpened
bamboo stick set in the ground to wound orimpale enemy soldiers
Etymologies
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Examples
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Vietnam where I was wounded, but how I was wounded was running across a rice paddy I fell into -- what's called a punji trap, Willich said.
RICHARD O WILLICH 2010
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In that instance, someone left a crude device known as a punji trap on the front porch of the detective's home.
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The first attack came in early December, when someone left a crude device known as a punji trap at the officer's home.
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Seek help, or better yet, build yourself a punji trap and fall in please.
Think Progress » O’Reilly: It’s so awful when people intrude on your vacation with their cameras. 2010
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F ukc off you dumb a$$ socialist lib, you want a punji stick in the eye?
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Dig pit (Note - ask if we need punji sticks to go with pit).
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January 20th, 2010 at 6: 23 pm dbadass says: can build a punji trap.
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F ukc off you dumb a$$ socialist lib, you want a punji stick in the eye?
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January 22nd, 2010 at 4: 06 pm dbadass says: you want a punji stick in the eye? —
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He stepped on a punji stake, a dung-poisoned bamboo spear that had been buried in the ground.
knitandpurl commented on the word punji
"The speed and power of their growth is alarming, the forms they adopt as bizarre and varied as those of deep-sea organisms, and all of them, he supposes, are as dangerous to an airplane as punji stakes to a barefoot pedestrian."
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson, p 30 of the Avon Books paperback edition
January 22, 2013