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bug light

American  

noun

  1. a yellow light bulb, used mainly outdoors, that does not attract insects.


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A quick click-clicking from a bug light at the tire store.

From "Kira-Kira" by Cynthia Kadohata

They were waiting for me under a yellow bug light on the porch.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

As the "bug" light caught her face, Roger saw that it was Charley.

From The Forbidden Trail by Honoré Morrow

She started violently and flashed her bug light in his face.

From The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

Gladys flashed her little bug light over the cliff and then shrieked with laughter at the spectacle below.

From The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars by Hildegard G. (Hildegard Gertrude) Frey

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