DOODLEBUG

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does doodlebug mean? 

• DOODLEBUG (noun)
  The noun DOODLEBUG has 3 senses:

1. a small motor vehicle

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

3. the larva of any of several insects

  Familiarity information: DOODLEBUG used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOODLEBUG (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small motor vehicle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("doodlebug" is a kind of...):

automotive vehicle; motor vehicle (a self-propelled wheeled vehicle that does not run on rails)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small jet-propelled winged missile that carries a bomb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

buzz bomb; doodlebug; flying bomb; robot bomb; V-1

Hypernyms ("doodlebug" is a kind of...):

guided missile (a rocket-propelled missile whose path can be controlled during flight either by radio signals or by internal homing devices)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The larva of any of several insects

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

ant lion; antlion; doodlebug

Hypernyms ("doodlebug" is a kind of...):

larva (the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose)

Holonyms ("doodlebug" is a member of...):

genus Myrmeleon; Myrmeleon (type genus of the Myrmeleontidae: antlions)