Definition of lightning bug
lightning bug 
noun
- a firefly.
- See more words with the same meaning: bugs, insects (list of).
Last edited on Jun 25 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Jun 25 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'bugs, insects (list of)': | |
| Definitions include: a mosquito. | |
| Definitions include: butterfly. | |
| Definitions include: a mosquito. | |
| Definitions include: a mosquito. | |
| Definitions include: a woodlouse, AKA pill bug. | |
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Other terms relating to 'bug': | |
| Definitions include: to pester or annoy. | |
| Definitions include: a horse jockey trainee | |
| Definitions include: having extremely large eyes. | |
| Definitions include: so compatible that even the known bugs of product A were replicated in the "bug-for-bug compatible" product B. | |
| Definitions include: of a person, crazy. | |
| Definitions include: a person who is a pest and deserves to be bugged (i.e. annoyed.) | |
| Definitions include: Kool-Aid, soda, or any kind of artificially sweetened drink. | |
| Definitions include: to get high. | |
| Definitions include: a photography enthusiast. | |
| Definitions include: very snug. | |
| Definitions include: to cause a software or hardware bug to become evident. | |
Other terms relating to 'lightning': | |
| Definitions include: something very fast. | |
| Definitions include: something or someone that attracts something else. | |
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