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
Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
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That old doodlebug only thinks of the silly specimens that he is going to collect down here.
From The White Waterfall by Dwyer, James Francis
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.