Word.ws English Dictionary

booby-traps

booby-traps is the plural of booby-trap.

booby-traps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of booby-trap.

Meaning of booby-trap

Verb

booby-trap (third-person singular simple present booby-traps, present participle booby-trapping, simple past and past participle booby-trapped)

  1. (transitive) To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on.
    • Transport for London and the RMT union are united in their condemnation of anti-COVID vaccination extremists who are booby-trapping posters on the London Underground and other stations with razor blades.2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11

Questions about booby-traps

What is booby-traps the plural of?
Booby-traps is the plural of booby-trap.

Words near booby-traps in the dictionary

  1. booby-hatch
  2. booby-hatches
  3. booby-trap
  4. booby-trapped
  5. booby-trapping
  6. booby-traps
  7. boobyalla
  8. boobyallas
  9. Boobyer
  10. boobying
  11. boobyish

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: booby-traps (page history and authors); booby-trap (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “booby-traps.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/booby-traps. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.