Usually means: Trigger mechanism activating a response.
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  1. tripwire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. tripwire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. tripwire: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Tripwire, tripwire: Wordnik
  5. tripwire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tripwire: Wiktionary
  7. tripwire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. tripwire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. tripwire: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. tripwire: Dictionary.com
  11. Tripwire (G.I. Joe), Tripwire (company), Tripwire (disambiguation), Tripwire (film), Tripwire (novel), Tripwire (software), Tripwire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. tripwire: Hacking Lexicon

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noun:  A cord or wire arranged so that when snagged or pulled by an intruder, it will trigger a detector or trap or a device, such as a land mine.
noun:  Any means of detecting intruders or attackers.
verb:  (transitive) To set a tripwire mechanism in (a location).

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