bug-light

Definitions

noun A small incandescent electric light, used either in street- or house-lighting, as distinguished from the more powerful arc-light.

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Extremists and radical clerics - including one who has become kind of a bug-light of sorts, attracting young American jihadis - have posted a stream of I-told-you-so messages.

Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists 2010
Extremists and radical clerics - including one who has become kind of a bug-light of sorts, attracting young American jihadis - have posted a stream of I-told-you-so messages.

Rancor Over Mosque Could Fuel Islamic Extremists 2010
Instead, he went out to the Bay and stood looking across the water toward the bug-light.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott
It was a crumbling mass of ruins, lying out in water, possibly fifty feet -- the real house was a bug-light farther out in the Bay.

In Her Own Right John Reed Scott
Larva membranes?) Or were they just beaming their magic bug-light amid the darkling vines?

Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia Sparrow 2009
Larva membranes?) Or were they just beaming their magic bug-light amid the darkling vines?

Heard By a Bird in Phoenicia Sparrow 2009
If it serves as a bug-light for the world’s jihadists, all the better.

Think Progress » Tony Snow’s Challenge: ‘Please Show Me’ Where The NIE Says ‘We’re Not Winning’ 2006
… your idea of entertainment is a six-pack and a bug-light.

Jihad Monitor 2010