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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Booby-trap (A ). A pitcher of water, book, or something else, balanced gingerly on the top of a door set ajar, so that when the booby or victim is enticed to pass through the door, the pitcher or book falls on him. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Minorities | Bosnia and Herzegovina | Staff of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the area termed the attack the most serious incident in Srebrenica since Bosniak returns began in April 2000, and suspect that the attack was related to an earlier incident 9 miles away in Glogova, in December 2000, in which a booby-trap grenade killed a Bosniak returnee cleaning his property. (references) |
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| "BOOBY-TRAP" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.23% of the time. "BOOBY-TRAP" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 69.23% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Noun (singular) | 30.77% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 13 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "BOOBY-TRAP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
French | piège (booby trap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | robbanó használati tárgy (boobytrap), otromba tréfa (a practical joke, booby trap, boobytrap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | ribbey vleaystanagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ooby-trapbay trick (fetch, finesse, game, gimmick, knack, ploy, racket, shtick, trick, wheeze), skämt (banter, foul, fun, funny, gag, jape, jest, jesting, joke, jokes, joking, lark, pleasantry, trifling, wheeze). (various references) วางทุ่นระเบิà¸". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-b-o-o-p-r-t-y" | |
-3 letters: batboy, potboy. | |
-4 letters: abbot, abort, aport, atopy, baboo, boart, booby, booty, borty, boyar, party, payor, robot, rooty, tabby, taboo, tabor, troop, yobbo. | |
-5 letters: arty, atop, baby, barb, boar, boat, boob, boor, boot, bora, bort, bota, boyo, brat, bray, broo, orby, part, paty, poor, port, prao, prat, pray, proa, rapt, rato, root, ropy, rota. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Quotations: Non-fiction 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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