Usually means: Devices designed to surprise, harm.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word booby traps:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. booby-traps, booby traps: Merriam-Webster
  2. booby-traps, booby-traps, booby traps: Collins English Dictionary
  3. booby traps: Vocabulary.com
  4. booby-traps: Wordnik
  5. booby traps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. booby-traps, booby traps: Wiktionary
  7. Booby traps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Booby Traps, booby-traps: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Booby Traps, booby-traps: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Booby Traps, booby-traps: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Booby-traps: Urban Dictionary

(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.
▸ Also see booby_trap


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