explosive devices (IEDs). Booby traps should not be confused with mantraps which are designed to catch a person. Lethal booby traps are often used in warfare...

(novella), a 1944 Nero Wolfe story by Rex Stout "Booby Trap", a 1996 single by godheadSilo Booby Traps, a 1944 Warner Bros. Private Snafu cartoon directed...

Booby-Traps and Other Devices, or Protocol II, is a United Nations treaty that restricts the use of land mines, remotely delivered mines, and booby traps...

or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. The convention covers land mines, booby traps, incendiary devices, blinding laser weapons and clearance of explosive...

and the surrounding civilian population. Booby traps ranged from the simple to the complex. Non-explosive traps included the well-known sharpened punji...

attacks were most likely indiscriminate. Booby traps are mostly outlawed under the Protocol on Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices ("Amended Protocol II")...

of booby-trap devices in the form of apparently harmless portable objects". Booby traps are mostly outlawed under the Protocol on Mines, Booby-Traps and...

word booby to mean dunce appeared in 1599. Booby prize literally means "idiot's prize". The OED dates this usage to 1893. Booby trap and "booby hatch"...

as it was so hazardous. The tunnels were often rigged with explosive booby traps or punji stick pits. The two most common responses in dealing with a...

2010, amid allegations that Vagos members had fabricated home-made booby traps to maim and kill police detectives in Hemet, California, police arrested...