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bug off

bug off interjection: used to tell somebody to leave one alone.

Interjection

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive, dismissal) Used to tell somebody to leave one alone.

Verb

bug off (third-person singular simple present bugs off, present participle bugging off, simple past and past participle bugged off)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To go away.
    • I lied to him to appease him so he would bug off.

Synonyms of bug off

Forms of bug off

third-person singular presentbugs off
present participlebugging off
past participlebugged off
pastbugged off

Questions about bug off

What does bug off mean?
Bug off means used to tell somebody to leave one alone.
What part of speech is bug off?
Bug off can be an interjection or a verb.

Words near bug off in the dictionary

  1. bug juice
  2. bug lady
  3. bug man
  4. bug nation
  5. bug nations
  6. bug off
  7. bug out
  8. bug outs
  9. bug screen
  10. bug screens
  11. bug scrub

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