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tank trap

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noun

  1. any obstacle, such as a number of concrete stumps set in the ground, designed to stop a military tank

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A fourth work, which also resembles Banksy's signature spray-painted style, portrays two children sitting on a metal tank trap and using it as a seesaw spray painted onto a concrete defensive block in Kyiv.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2022

They certainly know every tank trap on the Salisbury Plain.

From The Guardian • Jan. 23, 2013

In staff dugouts, officers had charted the position of every German battery, every pillbox and tank trap.

From Time Magazine Archive

The orthodox idea of a tank trap is a super-ditch like a lion pit.

From Time Magazine Archive

Trying to bypass a tank trap, one Patton bogged down in a marshy field.

From Time Magazine Archive

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