booby trap

See also: boobytrap and booby-trap

English

Etymology

From booby (“dunce, idiot”).

Noun

booby trap (plural booby traps)

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

Related terms

• boobytrap

Translations

antipersonnel device deliberately hidden or disguised as a harmless object

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: شَرَك m (šarak), فَخّ m (faḵḵ)
• Armenian: ական-ծուղակ (hy) (akan-cuġak)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 餌雷／饵雷 (zh) (ěrléi)

• Dutch: boobytrap (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: ansa (fi)
• French: piège (fr) m, objet piégé (fr) m
• Georgian: სატყუარა ნაღმი (saṭq̇uara naɣmi), დაფარული საფრთხე (daparuli saprtxe)
• German: Sprengfalle (de) f
• Hebrew: מלכודת f (malkódet), מוקש (he) m (mokésh)
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} meglepő akna, rejtett/álcázott bomba/csapda/akadály
• Icelandic: sprengjugildra f
• Italian: trabocchetto (it) m
• Japanese: ブービートラップ (būbī torappu)
• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Norman: attrape-nigaud m
• Persian: دام انفجاری
• Polish: mina pułapka f
• Portuguese: armadilha (pt) f
• Romanian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: ми́на-лову́шка (ru) f (mína-lovúška)
• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: försåtminering c
• Tamil: சூழ்ச்சிப் பொறி (cūḻccip poṟi)
• Turkish: bubi tuzağı (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: bẫy mìn

an unforeseen source of danger; a pitfall — see pitfall,‎ trap

See also

• canary trap
• honeypot
• IED

References

• (practical joke): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary