What is "betties"

Usage examples of "betties".

Coffell was whispering to me about his dread of Bouncing Betties: mines that sprang out of the ground and exploded at waist level.

He was going to take a patrol out in the morning and said he hoped they did not trip any Bouncing Betties.

Such is the demented nature of the universe that I was too weak to properly respond to my being hit on by carloads of Betties and Veronicasall except for the cheeky Cheryl Anderson who gave me 'manual release' the day I lost my eyebrows, followed by a flood of tears and the snapping of Polaroids in which I wear a knit toque.

And then the Japs, General Togo and Admiral Mitsubishi, but we drove them back, we nuked their asses right out of here, Then a week afterward there was a raid by San Jose, came up through Oakland, we stopped them by the Alameda Tunnel-no, it was the bridge-the bridge, right, we held them, they were cursing at us in gook and when we went in to clear them out we found that Charlie had planted Bouncing Betties everywhere, you know, antipersonnel mines .

One of the first tasks they accomplished as they manned the Siegfried Line was to put S-mines-Bouncing Betties-in front of their positions.