booby trap
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Booby trap
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| booby trap | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a hidden explosive device primed in such a way as to be set off by an unsuspecting victim |
| 2. | a trap for an unsuspecting person, esp one intended as a practical joke, such as an object balanced above a door to fall on the person who opens it |
| —vb , booby-trap, traps, -trapping, -trapped | |
| 3. | (tr) to set a booby trap in or on (a building or object) or for (a person) |
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