Definition of Bug out
1. Verb. Bulge outward. "His eyes popped"
Generic synonyms: Change Form, Change Shape, Deform
Derivative terms: Bulge, Protrusible, Protrusion, Protrusive
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bug Out
Literary usage of Bug out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In a Canadian Canoe, The Nine Muses Minus One, and Other Stories by Barry Pain (1891)
"show that bug out. I want to think of my latter end, and he interrupts me."
"Oh, dear, dear!" said the poor, well-meaning little insect, almost whimpering, ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1896)
"... of the disappearance of chinch-bug out-breaks, then we do not yet know what
these causes are. It is a sad commentary on the kind and amount of provision ..."
3. American Primary Teacher (1880)
"Before he began to draw, he lifted the bug out of the box and looked at him very
carefully all over. He counted his legs with the point ..."
4. The Primary Teacher (1880)
"Before he began to draw, he lifted the bug out of the box and looked at him very
carefully all over. He counted his legs with the point of his pencil, ..."
5. Recollections of Itinerant Life: Including Early Reminiscences by George Brown (1866)
"He tried to float the bug out with sweet-oil, but did not succeed. He then picked
it out, a bit at a time, with an instrument. My ear bled freely, ..."
6. The Nucleation of the Uncontaminated Atmosphere by Carl Barus (1906)
"... brother," and then the boy told him to get the bug out of his hair ; and the
boy began to do as he had been told, and when he got through he called out, ..."
7. When Kansas was Young by Thomas Allen McNeal (1922)
"All the other men except Priest gathered about him, full of sympathy and apparently
deeply concerned in getting the bug out of his eye. ..."
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