Beetle

Quick meaning: Beetle is a noun meaning To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.

Meaning

To move (away) quickly, to scurry away.

More Meanings

1. Protruding, jutting, overhanging.
2. (ambitransitive) To loom over; to extend or jut (above).
3. A type of mallet with a large wooden head, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.
4. A machine in which fabrics are subjected to a hammering process while passing over rollers, as in cotton mills; a beetling machine.
5. Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
6. (uncountable) A game of chance in which players attempt to complete a drawing of a beetle, different dice rolls allowing them to add the various body parts.
7. Alternative letter-case form of Beetle (“car”).

Example Sentences

beetle brows

He beetled off on his vacation.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:beetle.

“[…] But he seems to have beetled off somewhere as usual. […]”

Word Forms

• beetles
• beetling
• beetled

Synonyms for beetle

Depending on context, synonyms include bug, overhang, protrusive, beetling.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overhang, protrusive, dor, chrysomelid, ladybird, cockroach.

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