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Trigger for booby trap
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tripwire
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another edges his way towards him ... picking through mines and tripwires. ▪ At first they were detonated by cables or tripwires. ▪ Booby traps were usually small and frequently made out of a grenade, with a simple tripwire attached. ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A tripwire is a passive triggering mechanism. Typically, a wire or cord is attached to some device for detecting or reacting to physical movement. A tripwire may be a wire attached to one or more mines — normally bounding mines and the fragmentation type ...
Usage examples of tripwire.
The team paused when Mindy spotted a tripwire, and George deactivated the Claymore mine attached.
Gasher grunted at last, and slipped beneath the tripwires himself with the ease of long practice.
He spied the tripwires, but the fountain's got him, so that's all right.