Sentence examples for the booby from inspiring English sources

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the booby

noun

A stupid person.

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Avoided the booby traps.

Friendship is the booby prize.

"That's from the booby trap manual.

"Unfortunately, he got the booby prize here".

And the booby prize for acting old?

But a gap year is hardly the booby prize.

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Doctors and nurses at the hospital have treated the booby-trapped patients despite the danger.

The hospital staff has become accustomed to dealing with the booby-trapped patients.

The authorities believe that the booby-trapped equipment was sold to derail uranium enrichment efforts, he said.

Langley was crushed to death in one of the booby-trapped newspaper tunnels of his own construction.

The Bagram Air Base, the apparent target of the booby-trapped tanker, serves as the American military headquarters in Afghanistan.

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