In military terms, prime blunder by revolutionary faction

Usage examples of booby-trap.

The handlers recognized the ability of the dogs to accomplish this and felt that this would prevent both the dog and the handler from stumbling into trip wires, antipersonnel mines or booby-trapped material found in caves.

She unloaded the rifle he had carried into the woods and pumped the shotgun he had used as a booby-trap to verify that it was empty, and placed them on the fire to burn off the wooden stocks and forepieces, then added the fishing pole to burn the cork handle and line and melt the fiberglass.

But the Rebels caught on quickly, and at first light went to work laying out mines and booby-trapping possible escape routes.

It was inches-thick solid steel, with no visible lock mechanism, and undoubtably booby-trapped in a dozen ways, from hidden disrupters to primed explosives.

That much had been clear as soon as the last load of internees arrived atop the plateau, hearing the black winch box shut down with an electronic buzz and booby-trapped clank.

The dwarves have the transporters booby-trapped to keep Minors from mixing too much with Majors and vice versa.

When Carlos, usually the mildest of the five Colombian men, suggested angrily that booby-trapping the Nissan van with explosives had been una idea imb6ci4 Miguel snatched up a knife.

Or perhaps it was a booby-trapped cake and the whole thing would blow up the moment it was cut, taking Bruce Bogtrotter with it.

A casual reference that seems aimed at Latin America is a bit of window-dressing, a booby-trap for compromisers, upon which they did pounce eagerly.

The databanks were multiply booby-trapped, and encrypted when we got through the booby traps, but it was all fairly straightforward.

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

The booby-trapped artillery shell had not given them any time to choose, or to take cover, or to do anything but die instantly.

He matched the figure sculpted in gold back in the caverns, both the life-size idol guarding the booby-trapped room and the towering statue in the center of the necropolis.

This morning he had sent Lars into it to make sure it was not booby-trapped — better Lars blew up than he.

Sometime that year, Lieutenant Colonel Meyers, one of the regiment’s battalion commanders, stepped on a booby-trapped 155-mm shell.