tank trap

English

Noun

tank trap (plural tank traps)

  1. (military) Anything placed to impede the movement of tanks, such as large caltrops, Czech hedgehogs, dragon's teeth, mines, or depressions in the ground.
    • 1954, Weapons: a pictorial history, page 139:
      Land mines make good tank traps.

Translations

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.