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doodlebug::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | buzz bomb, flying bomb, robot bomb, v-1 |
| Type of | guided missile |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | automotive vehicle, motor vehicle |
Examples of doodlebug
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Doodlebug, under a different name, will make a comeback to compete with Hello Kitty.
From the bostonherald.com
Some of the rides included miniature boats, a Ferris wheel, doodlebug, and pony rides.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The book starts with a human, who, of course, calls his child doodlebug.
From the kansas.com
On the night of 29 July 1944, a Saturday, a doodlebug was hit over the English Channel.
From the en.wikipedia.org
He flew on a bombing mission over France and he was in London for the first German doodlebug attacks.
From the boston.com
Doodlebug plays with horseshoe crabs at the touch tank, where the water smells a little too funny to sample.
From the newsobserver.com
Doodlebug is nervous about the sharks surrounding us, and talks to me for 90 minutes about grim ways to die.
From the newsobserver.com
Eventually it was remembered that one of the two engineers that ran our three Merlin engines had recently lost his mother to a V1 doodlebug.
From the telegraph.co.uk
I can remember my mother telling me that a doodlebug landed at the bottom of the garden and blew all the windows out except the one my elder sister was sleeping under.
From the telegraph.co.uk
- A small motor vehicle
- Buzz bomb: a small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb
- The larva of any of several insects
- In the United States, doodlebug was the common name for a self-propelled railroad car (multiple unit). ...
- , (UK) the V-1 flying bomb; A term of endearment; antlion larva (Myrmeleontidae)
- (doodlebugger) A seismologist working in the field
- ("doodlebugs") affectionate slang term for the 5000-series cars, probably derived from the articulated cars' bug-like or caterpillar-like appearance. It also may have further origin on mainline railroads, where gas-electric diesels were also called "doodlebugs" or "puddlejumpers". ...
- Rail motorcar used by section men, linemen, etc. Also called ding dong
- Nickname for the V-1 pilotless aircraft (DRONE) bomb or rocket bomb; also called "buzz bomb", "bumble bomb", and "robot bomb" used during WWII; derived from "foolish + small". See MISSILE, ROCKET.
