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trip wire
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The left leg is almost horizontal in the trip wire, and the right leg is bent.
Wire may be used as a high or low entanglement or as a fence or trip wire or concealed obstacle.
I then put the shells, one on either side, and connected them with a fine trip-wire tied to each ring.
He knelt down beside the menacing box of explosives and quickly disconnected the trip wire, throwing the box to one side.
If we'd hit a trip wire or something similar, the dynamite would have gone off right then.
This trip-wire was as difficult to cross as the wire of the entanglements.
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On this page you'll find 13 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to trip wire, such as: land mine, ambush, baited trap, deadfall, decoy, and hidden danger.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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