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Meanings of doodlebug in English

Portuguese
bomba voadora
Catalan
bomba volant
Wikidata

A small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb.

        bomba voadora
        Wikidata

        A terrestrial crustacean that is a member of the suborder Oniscidea.

            The larva of any of several insects.

                  Usage of doodlebug in English
                  1
                  Soon after Richard was adopted, Orwell's flat was wrecked by a doodlebug.
                  The Guardian
                  2
                  He figured out how to take out the Nazi doodlebug flying bombs!
                  Warlord: an alex hawke novel
                  3
                  I just thrash about, and gang in circles like a doodlebug.
                  Outlander
                  4
                  But he sees a doodlebug that looks at him funny and he laughs out loud.
                  Black is the new white
                  5
                  The side of Bobby Lee's face twitched as though a doodlebug were crawling across it.
                  Rain gods
                  6
                  The fighter who had just been telling him about the doodlebug had reached the arch earlier.
                  Metro 2033
                  7
                  These days my Kenny's as worthless as a doodlebug, and Herb always helped out when he could.
                  Happiness key
                  8
                  That old doodlebug only thinks of the silly specimens that he is going to collect down here.
                  The White Waterfall
                  9
                  Football carried on during that war and the club would have games stopped when a doodlebug went across.
                  The Guardian
                  10
                  I'm no damn doodlebug.
                  God’s Little Acre
                  11
                  The doodlebug would move, the sand would pour to the bottom and the ant went straight down, falling into its mouth.
                  Metro 2033
                  12
                  Maybe the 'doodlebug' forced them to feel an irresistible desire to run from there at breakneck speed when they caused it pain?
                  Metro 2033
                  13
                  The couple settled in London at the height of the German doodlebug offensive and just as the V2 rocket attacks were beginning.
                  The Guardian
                  14
                  And then I had him on again last year, on a sort of doodlebug in the late evening, and he broke me again-brand-new, o.x.
                  On the Beach
                  15
                  An article in last Saturday's Magazine referred to doodlebugs and said they were a type of tractor.
                  The Irish Times
                  16
                  You've all heard about these 'doodlebugs' who go around locating oil with a divining rod, haven't you?
                  Flowing Gold
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                  Translations for doodlebug
                  Portuguese
                  bomba voadora
                  Doodlebug through the time