bug off

1. Also, bugger off. Go away, as in Bug off before I call the police. Both terms are often used as an imperative, as in the example, and the variant is heard more in Britain than in America. [Slang; c. 1900] For a synonym, see buzz off.

Example Sentences

Keyan Harvey developed necrotising fasciitis, a flesh-eating bug off the back of having chicken pox when he was six.

Read more on BBC

If you want something more on the nose, you can go to Lehigh Valley Zoo in Pennsylvania to get truly primal, where the “Bug Off” fundraiser will name crickets after an ex for $5, sure.

Read more on Washington Post

When “Bug Off is just not enough … you can bid to name a carcass in honor of your ex, and we’ll feed it to our Mexican Grey Wolves,” they promise.

Read more on Washington Post

“I told you to bug off, before I do you a hard one.”

Read more on Literature

Whipped up his notebook, picked himself a bug off the floor, then launched that little critter right into Katia Mavchek’s hair.

Read more on Literature