noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
booby hatch
booby prize
booby trap
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He lost both legs in a booby trap bomb blast.
the booby prize (= one given as a joke to the person who comes last )
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The cake I made for the competition was so bad I got the booby prize.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
prize
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It could only be because she thought they'd win a kind of booby prize .
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If they were giving out prizes for what you do in bed he'd have come away with the booby prize.
trap
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He laid booby traps in his house, and built lookout posts for anyone who came on to his property.
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And of course, that little shit has no right to try and ambush me or get me with a booby trap !
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Numbers of large mammals, including elephants, will have fallen victim to booby traps and land-mines.
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Within the first 10 minutes, we had 6 guys wounded from different booby traps , mainly hand grenades.
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If it really was a bomb, unzipping the cover would almost certainly trip a booby trap .
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These bodies were like booby traps .
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Detectives want to establish whether Mr Jowett, 43, was killed by a booby trap or in an elaborate suicide.
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We must have moved all of a foot and a half before we hit a booby trap .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Any half-blind booby can see it makes no sense.
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Thereafter we had to put up with Crewe elegantly stringing passes together while our overpaid boobies struggled.