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  • noun a zoologist who studies insects

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Examples

  • BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Expert bug-hunter William Bellow must find the cyberspace bug that is killing its users.

    REVIEW: Prime by Nate Kenyon 2009

  • 'The unfailing instinct of your true bug-hunter, Bo'sun.

    San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

  • And, too, had the Huns fired there would have at once been answering fire from the Americans, for the latter gunners were always on the alert, and once word was passed up and down the line that the little "bug-hunter" was out in No

    Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam Clarence Young

  • And can you wonder that when I found this crazy boob of a bug-hunter with the queer name squatting right on the top of it, and never quitting his room, I had to do the best I could to shift him?

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • And can you wonder that when I found this crazy boob of a bug-hunter with the queer name squatting right on the top of it, and never quitting his room, I had to do the best I could to shift him?

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • And can you wonder that when I found this crazy boob of a bug-hunter with the queer name squatting right on the top of it, and never quitting his room, I had to do the best I could to shift him?

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • And can you wonder that when I found this crazy boob of a bug-hunter with the queer name squatting right on the top of it, and never quitting his room, I had to do the best I could to shift him?

    The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1927

  • He was well aware that a pair of mild eyes and gentle, ingenuous manners are many a rogue's most valuable asset, and though the bug-hunter talked frankly of his pilgrimages into the hills, there was always a chance that his pursuit was a pose, his zeal counterfeit.

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • Something in the alacrity the "bug-hunter" displayed angered Smith.

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

  • He decided to ride over to the MacDonald ranch that evening and have a look at the bad _hombre_ who masqueraded as a bug-hunter -- bug-hunter, it should be explained, being a Western term for any stranger engaged in scientific pursuits.

    'Me--Smith' Caroline Lockhart 1916

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