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

A doodlebug generates anything from 15 to 65 h. p., can do up to 120 m. p. h. on a straightaway.

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