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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

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

From The Guardian

They certainly know every tank trap on the Salisbury Plain.

From The Guardian

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive