doodlebug

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While stationed in Liverpool as a Royal Air Force physical training instructor, a doodlebug landed near Max, perforating his eardrums and leading to a spell laid up in hospital.

From BBC • Jul. 10, 2019

Football carried on during that war and the club would have games stopped when a doodlebug went across.

From The Guardian • May 13, 2017

In June 1944, George Orwell's flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a doodlebug.

From The Guardian • Jan. 20, 2013

Madison Square Garden, prime barometer for new U. S. sporting crazes, held its first doodlebug race in its outdoor bowl last year.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then to himself he muttered: "An' that doodlebug Billy Jordan thinkin' he knowed more about th' Panhandle than me!"

From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Mulford, Clarence Edward