doodlebug
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While stationed in Liverpool as a Royal Air Force physical training instructor, a doodlebug landed near Max, perforating his eardrums and leading to a spell laid up in hospital.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2019
In June 1944, George Orwell's flat in Mortimer Crescent was destroyed by a doodlebug.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 20, 2013
It seemed heavy with the weight of its own folklore: chover, billywitch, bummler, doodlebug, mitchamador, midsomerdor, may-bug, June-bug.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 5, 2012
Later Johnny Ritter, smallest but reputedly most "heavy-footed" of doodlebug racers, did the same thing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then to himself he muttered: "An' that doodlebug Billy Jordan thinkin' he knowed more about th' Panhandle than me!"
From Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up by Clarence Edward Mulford
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