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- noun Plural form of
firebug .
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Examples
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These arson trusts are not the ordinary kind of firebugs whom the firemen plentifully damn in the fixed belief that one-fourth of all fires are kindled by incendiaries.
The Poisoned Pen 1908
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Detailed and thoughtful instructions lead aspiring firebugs from creating an olive-oil lamp and one-candlepower engine to making an operating fire piston and a blindingly bright arc light.
Young Men and Fire Adam Savage 2011
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The here-and-now slammed into Dante with sledgehammer force: the firebugs waiting on the boat ramp, his first flight through the Louisiana night, the yacht, Trey, the quiet beep of a timer.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The here-and-now slammed into Dante with sledgehammer force: the firebugs waiting on the boat ramp, his first flight through the Louisiana night, the yacht, Trey, the quiet beep of a timer.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The here-and-now slammed into Dante with sledgehammer force: the firebugs waiting on the boat ramp, his first flight through the Louisiana night, the yacht, Trey, the quiet beep of a timer.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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The here-and-now slammed into Dante with sledgehammer force: the firebugs waiting on the boat ramp, his first flight through the Louisiana night, the yacht, Trey, the quiet beep of a timer.
Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011
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Confronted with these changes, the left-wing firebugs seem to have two aims, sociology professor Dieter Rucht said.
David Dagan: In Berlin, Cars Burn as Neighborhoods Change 2010
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The piece, entitled "Foreign Criminals in New York," claimed that the ranks of this immigrant group included "burglars, firebugs, pickpockets and highway robbers," and that Semites were particularly prone to these activities because of their "ignorance of the language" (just as non-English speakers can be an issue to majority Americans today).
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Aside from the troublemakers and firebugs, there is an odd kind of trust between the firemen and the neighborhoods they are paid to protect.
FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010
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Confronted with these changes, the left-wing firebugs seem to have two aims, sociology professor Dieter Rucht said.
In Berlin, Cars Burn as Neighborhoods Change David Dagan 2010
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