antibug
adjEtymology From anti- + bug.
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Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
- The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder...1961, Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know:
- Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.1972, The Popular Science Monthly:
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- Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green:
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Serving to counteract bugs (audio or audiovisual surveillance devices).
- antibug measures
- The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide:
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- Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed.1991, John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement:
- Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown:
- Related terms
- bug spray, antiinsectan, insecticide, insect repellent, wiretap, wiretapping