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blackbeetle

n. dark brown cockroach originally from orient now nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: oriental cockroach, oriental roach, Asiatic cockroach, Blatta orientalis]

Usage examples of "blackbeetle".

She popped another blackbeetle into her mouth, and then another, like someone with a bag of chocolate-covered raisins.

He haunted the kitchen with the persistency of a blackbeetle, and became such a nuisance at last that Miss Hartley espoused his cause almost with enthusiasm.

Later on in life I was the victim of a cruel hoax, carried out with triumphant ingenuity by a confirmed practical joker, who with the aid of a thread caused what appeared to be a gigantic blackbeetle to perform strange and unholy evolutions in my sitting-room.

Worst of all, I was victimised by the presence of a blackbeetle in a plate of clear soup served me at my club.

Livak leaped to one side as a flurry of blackbeetles scurried in all directions and I stamped hard on something with far too many legs for my peace of mind.

The bag was half-filled with large shiny blackbeetles, crawling over each other in their efforts to get out of the bag.

She folded the white paper bag, carefully, so no blackbeetles could escape, and she placed it back in the shopping bag.

For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State.