Translation for 'booby trap' from English to French

booby-trap

mécanisme {m} piégémil.

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brown booby

fou {m} brun [Sula leucogaster]orn.T

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masked booby

fou {m} masqué [Sula dactylatra]orn.T

blue-faced booby

fou {m} masqué [Sula dactylatra]orn.T

trap

chausse-trappe {f} [aussi : chausse-trape]chasse

trappe {f}chasse

embûche {f} [machination]

liquidity trap

trappe {f} à liquiditéécon.fin.

trap [mousetrap]

souricière {f}

tourist trap

piège {m} à touristestourisme

Thucydides trap

piège {m} de Thucydidemil.pol.

eel trap

piège {m} à anguillesichtyo.

offside trap [soccer]

piège {m} du hors-jeusport

trap [also fig.]

traquenard {m} [aussi fig.]

piège {m} [aussi fig.]

trap [coll.] [mouth]

gueule {f} [fam.] [bouche]

to trap sth. [animal]

prendre qc.au piège

to set the trap

préparer le piègechassemil.

to trap sth. [snare]

piéger qc.

honey trap [also fig.]

piège {m} de miel [aussi fig.]

Shut your trap! [coll.]

Boucle-la ! [fam.]

• The IRA came up with ever more sophisticated designs and deployments of IEDs. Booby Trap or Victim Operated IEDs (VOIEDs), became commonplace.
• In 1921, a booby trap bomb mailed to the American ambassador in Paris exploded, wounding his valet.
• As the Imperial German Army retreats, they booby trap the whole town to explode.
• The term "booby trap" gives rise to the idea that an individual with the misfortune to be caught in the trap does so because the individual is a "booby", or that an individual who is caught in the trap thereby becomes a "booby".
• Barnes and Carter return to the building that SID took over in the real world, and save Karin from a booby trap set up by SID that's similar to the one that killed Barnes' family.

• Mac also recites a few lines from the song as he's chasing the Predator after it escapes from their booby trap.
• He had set a booby trap with a weighted plant pot on a chain, which was triggered by the victim opening the radio cabinet after locking up for the night.
• When an enemy is defeated, party members gain experience points and are rewarded with a treasure chest that may contain money or a booby trap.
• They were used during the Blitz with delay and booby-trap fusing to hamper firefighting and other damage-control efforts in the target areas.
• In April 1996 the first democratically elected president of Chechnya, Dzhokhar Dudayev, was killed by Russian forces using a booby trap bomb and a missile fired from a warplane after he was located by triangulating the position of a satellite phone he was using.

• Its time delay was too short to be a useful booby trap, but was instead meant to destroy the weapon if a soft landing had not triggered the impact fuses.
• A 2 kg TNT booby trap had been put under the driver's seat of his car.