Booby trap
Booby trap noun - A usually concealed explosive device designed to go off when disturbed.
Usage example: luckily, the bomb squad didn't find any booby traps
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Explosive and booby trap are semantically related in military topic. In some cases you can use "Explosive" instead a noun phrase "Booby trap".
Explosive
Explosive noun - A chemical substance that undergoes a rapid chemical change (with the production of gas) on being heated or struck.
Booby trap and explosive are semantically related in military topic. You can use "Booby trap" instead a noun "Explosive", if it concerns topics such as something that blows up.
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Booby Trap: Santana rigs up an explosive charge to the locker with the power nodes so Riddick can't just steal them.
Source: Film / Riddick - The classical booby trap is to tilt a picture on the wall slightly, then rig an explosive charge with a mercury trigger behind it.
Source: Combat Pragmatist / Real Life -
Explosive-rigged computer terminals appear in Fallout 3 as a booby trap.
Source: Explosive Instrumentation
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