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

Examples of bug off in a Sentence

I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone

Recent Examples on the Web

Additionally, it can be used to keep harmful bugs off your garden plants, if needed. —Lauren Breedlove, Travel + Leisure, 26 May 2023

The kit also comes with a cleaning brush for getting the dead bugs off the wire grids. —Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 Mar. 2023

The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special Valentine’s Day greeting for exes who just won’t bug off. —Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023

Toward the end of the film, Weerasethakul’s hand enters the frame to brush a dead bug off the bed. —The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2022

Word History

Etymology

probably short for bugger off

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above