Usually means: Device designed to surprise, harm.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word booby trap:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. booby-trap, booby trap: Merriam-Webster
  2. booby trap: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. booby trap: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. booby-trap, booby-trap, booby trap: Collins English Dictionary
  5. booby trap: Vocabulary.com
  6. booby-trap, booby trap: Wordnik
  7. booby-trap, booby trap: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. booby-trap, booby trap: Wiktionary
  9. booby trap: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. booby trap: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Booby trap, booby-trap, booby trap: Dictionary.com
  12. booby-trap: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Booby Trap (TNG episode), Booby Trap, Booby-trap, Booby trap (disambiguation), Booby trap: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. booby trap: Rhymezone
  15. Booby-trap: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  16. booby trap: FreeDictionary.org
  17. booby trap: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. booby-trap, booby trap: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. Booby trap: Phrase Finder
  20. booby trap: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. booby trap: Law.com Dictionary
  3. booby-trap, booby trap: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. booby-trap, booby trap: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See booby-trap as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (booby trap)

noun:  (military) An antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object.
noun:  A practical joke by which something is made to fall upon someone entering through a door, or the like.
noun:  (by extension) An unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall.

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