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tank trap

noun

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

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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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.

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I had yet to learn to recognise the sight of a tank trap or the guard towers placed at the corners of cornfields.

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They certainly know every tank trap on the Salisbury Plain.

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The only way to get off the beach was to blow up a big tank trap that was blocking our way.

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

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