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Definition of lightning bug

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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.

Slang terms with the same root words

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: having one or more bugs; "buggy".
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: arson for profit.
Definitions include: something or someone that attracts something else.

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