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tripwire
noun 2verb 1
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2ADJ.
nearby
VERB + TRIPWIRE
seeing
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noun
1
A cord or wire arranged so that when snagged or pulled by an intruder, it will trigger a detector or trap or a device, such as a land mine.
Seeing the tripwire of a nearby bouncing Betty gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.
They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire.
2
Any means of detecting intruders or attackers.
The continued presence of U.S. troops as a tripwire force in Macedonia is an increasingly risky venture.
verb
1
To set a tripwire mechanism in (a location).
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Seeing the tripwire of a nearby bouncing Betty gave us cold chills, and we moved all the more slowly through the woods.
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They watched the two ghost-hunters run own the corridor and go crashing over the trip-wire.
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Thirteen people were injured in August 1957 when this Bristol freighter skidded on the runway at Southend Airport when landing with a flight from Calais. It ploughed through the boundary fence, but th
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