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  1. trip wirenoun

    a small military force that serves as a first line of defense; if they become engaged in hostilities it will trigger the intervention of stronger military forces

  2. trip wirenoun

    a wire stretched close to the ground that activates something (a trap or camera or weapon) when tripped over

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  1. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

    It looks like there could be four, maybe five battalions ... the point of these formations is to act as a trip wire, it isn't intended to be aggressive.

  2. David Kochel:

    Pence needs to figure out how to defend his own actions to follow the Constitution while not hitting that trip wire.


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