bug off
verb
bugged off; bugging off; bugs off
intransitive verb
: leave, depart —usually used as a command
Synonyms
- bail
- bail out
- begone
- book [slang]
- bug out
- bugger off [British slang]
- buzz (off)
- clear off [chiefly British]
- clear out
- cut out
- depart
- dig out
- exit
- get
- get off
- go
- go off
- move
- pack (up or off)
- part
- peel off
- pike (out or off)
- pull out
- push off
- push on
- quit
- run along
- sally (forth)
- scarper [British]
- shove (off)
- step (along)
- take off
- vamoose
- walk out
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Example Sentences
I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone
Word History
Etymology
probably short for bugger off
First Known Use
1952, in the meaning defined above
bugs off
verb
as in exits
to leave a place often for another I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- exits
- departs
- moves
- bugs out
- goes
- buggers off
- gets
- peels off
- parts
- pushes off
- cuts out
- clears off
- takes off
- bails out
- goes off
- gets off
- walks out
- runs along
- escapes
- starts
- beats it
- pulls out
- digs out
- takes a powder
- clears out
- evacuates
- pushes on
- flies
- takes a hike
- quits
- flees
- bails
- vamooses
- sallies (forth)
- books
- takes a walk
- pulls stakes
- pulls up stakes
- hits the road
- scarpers
- buzzes (off)
- pikes (out or off)
- sets out
- packs (up or off)
- steps (along)
- strikes out
- withdraws
- runs away
- shoves (off)
- retires
- retreats
- lights out
- skips
- emigrates
- gets out
- steps out
- goes out
- mizzles
- deserts
- abandons
- absconds
- scats
- removes
- scrams
- decamps
- forsakes
- vacates
- adjourns
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- turns up
- comes
- remains
- arrives
- stays
- approaches
- dwells
- settles
- closes
- abides
- lands
- hits
- reaches
- lodges
- nears
- shows up
- tarries
- grasserie
- grassers
- grasses
- grasses (on)
- grasses on
- grasses up
- grasset
- grassets
- grasseyement
- grasseyé
- grassfinches
- grassfinchs
- grassfires
- grassflower
- grasshooks
- grasshop
- grasshopper
- grasshopper hawk
- Grasshopper Indian
- grasshopper lark
- grasshopper mouse
- grasshopper plow
- grasshopper sparrow
- grasshopper warbler
- grasshoppers