BUGGING OUT Synonyms: 109 Similar and Opposite Words

bugging out

verb

present participle of bug out

as in retreating

to hasten away from something dangerous or frightening the ground soldiers bugged out just before the start of the aerial bombing

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as in departing

to leave a place often for another the strange visitor bugged out without so much as saying a word

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Recent Examples of bugging out Her baby's father answered the door with his eyes bugging out, and Frierson barged in to find two other guys, needles, spoons and powder on the table. —

Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025

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That deadlock prompted an unusually long recess of nearly 90 minutes that was followed by a 6-0 vote in favor of retreating on the bus stops.

— David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2026
Many of them have been linked to retreating glaciers, as melting ice destabilizes the mountains and land that had been covered for centuries.

— Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2026