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antibug en · ADJ

From anti- + bug.

(not-comparable) Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
- Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating... 2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green:
- The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder... 1961, Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know:
- Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio. 1972, The Popular Science Monthly:
(not-comparable) Serving to counteract bugs (audio or audiovisual surveillance devices).
- Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government. 1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown:
- antibug measures
- Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed. 1991, John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement:
- The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector. 1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide: