What is "booby-trapped"

Usage examples of "booby-trapped".

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.

We trudged up to the line and back again, patrolled the booby-trapped trails, dug foxholes and redug them when they were collapsed by the rain.