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
In June 1944, George Orwell's flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a doodlebug.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2013
It seemed heavy with the weight of its own folklore: chover, billywitch, bummler, doodlebug, mitchamador, midsomerdor, may-bug, June-bug.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012
Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
That old doodlebug only thinks of the silly specimens that he is going to collect down here.
From The White Waterfall by James Francis Dwyer
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