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firebug

[fahyuhr-buhg] / ˈfaɪərˌbʌg /
NOUN
person who sets fires
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When they turned up to a job, they didn’t want to know the local rumours about Firebug X or Y. Nothing but the uncannily expressive evidence concerned them.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2019

This grassroots event runs across 10 city venues from Firebug bar to the O2 Academy, with complimentary shuttle buses ferrying wristband-holders around Leicester.

From The Guardian • Apr. 19, 2019

One marathon swimmer, Andrew Malinak of Seattle, used Firebug, a Web development tool that inspects code, to glean Nyad’s GPS data from the swimmer’s official Web site.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2013

Which suggests it may be time to fire Smokey the Bear and hire some new symbolic mascot like Sparky the Firebug.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Bradys and the Firebug; or, Found in the Flames.

From The Bradys Beyond Their Depth The Great Swamp Mystery by Doughty, Francis Worcester




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