firebug
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of firebug
Example Sentences
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When they turned up to a job, they didn’t want to know the local rumours about Firebug X or Y. Nothing but the uncannily expressive evidence concerned them.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2019
This grassroots event runs across 10 city venues from Firebug bar to the O2 Academy, with complimentary shuttle buses ferrying wristband-holders around Leicester.
From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2019
One marathon swimmer, Andrew Malinak of Seattle, used Firebug, a Web development tool that inspects code, to glean Nyad’s GPS data from the swimmer’s official Web site.
From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2013
Which suggests it may be time to fire Smokey the Bear and hire some new symbolic mascot like Sparky the Firebug.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Bradys and the Firebug; or, Found in the Flames.
From The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery by Doughty, Francis Worcester
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