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litter-bug

litter-bug is the alternative form of litterbug.

Meaning of litterbug

Noun

litterbug (plural litterbugs)

  1. (informal) A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.
    • […] I mean I'm sittin' here, on the Group W bench, 'cause you want to know if I'm moral enough to join the army, burn women, kids, houses and villages, after being a litterbug1967, Arlo Guthrie, “Alice's Restaurant”
    Synonyms:
    litter lout

Forms of litter-bug

plurallitter-bugs

Questions about litter-bug

What is litter-bug the alternative form of?
Litter-bug is the alternative form of litterbug.

Words near litter-bug in the dictionary

  1. litter moth
  2. litter moths
  3. litter picking
  4. litter tray
  5. litter trays
  6. litter-bug
  7. litter-bugs
  8. Litteral
  9. litterally
  10. Litterals
  11. litteraly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: litter-bug (page history and authors); litterbug (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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