"booby-trap" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021 September 22, “Network News: Station posters booby-trapped”, in RAIL, number 940, page 11:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2023 October 11, Emma Graham-Harrison, “Hamas gunmen ‘killed families in their beds’ at Kfar Aza kibbutz, say Israeli forces”, in The Guardian:",
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        "To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on."
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        "(transitive) To set up with booby traps; to plant a booby trap on."
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