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Definition of Beetle off
1. Verb. Leave suddenly and as if in a hurry. "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beetle Off
Literary usage of Beetle off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the New York Entomological Society by New York Entomological Society (1908)
"... throw the beetle off, but the latter had run over her clypeus just as she was
about to clean her face with the strigil of her fore leg. ..."
2. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1896)
"On the evening of the 28th of last month (May) I swept a single specimen of this
beetle off some low growing elm in the rond leading from the Clandon ..."
3. Denizens of the Desert: A Book of Southwestern Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles by Edmund Carroll Jaeger (1922)
"The two middle (second pair) legs are straightened out downward, thus elevating
the inverted beetle off the ground. When the body is well propped up, ..."
4. From Tokyo to Tiflis: Uncensored Letters from the War by Fred Arthur McKenzie (1905)
"I started writing at his table, but had to stop every second or two to brush some
fresh beetle off. When at night I lay down on the wooden platform of the ..."
5. The Naturalist in Nicaragua: A Narrative of a Residence at the Gold Mines of by Thomas Belt (1888)
"... we had given the poor mules; my only consolation was that as we rode back I
picked a fine new longicorn beetle off the leaves of an overhanging tree. ..."
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