Crossword clues for firebug
The Collaborative International Dictionary
firebug \firebug\ n. a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist.
Syn: arsonist, incendiary.
2. a brightly colored type of true bug that can exude a stain.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (taxlink Pyrrhocoris apterus species noshow=1), a common red and black insect, that is the type species of the family ''(taxlink Pyrrhocoridae species noshow=1)''. 2 (context slang English) a pyromaniac or arsonist.
WordNet
n. a criminal who illegally sets fire to property [syn: arsonist, incendiary]
a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain
Wikipedia
Firebug is a computer game by MUSE Software for the Apple II computer. The game was released on cassette tape and on floppy disk. It was written by Silas Warner, who created Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple II in 1981.
The player controlled a "firebug", a 3-by-3- pixel square with a tail stretching behind it. The player picked up gas cans—each represented by a single pixel on the screen—and dropped a can by pressing the joystick button. The end of the player's tail glowed white, and ignited any gas can that it came adjacent to, including cans the player had dropped. Once a gas can ignited, it burst into colorful flames, which ignited any walls they touch.
The goal was to burn down the highest possible percentage of the walls on the level, and escape down the stairs to the next level without touching any flames with the body of the firebug. Tail collisions with fire were expected and ignored. As the game progressed, each level featured tighter mazes of walls, increasing the penalty for player mistakes; and the player's tail shortened, causing player-dropped gas cans to explode sooner.
Firebug used the Apple II's lo-res graphics mode, which displayed 16 colors but which had a pixel resolution of only 40 wide by 48 high. Hence, the game looked remarkably crude, even by the standards of Apple II games. At the time, the colorful fire effect was notable.
In Microcomputing, Wayne Green wrote "Neither I nor my kid-game testers found Firebug a game worth playing more than once or twice at most."
Firebug is the name of three DC Comics supervillains.
Firebug is a free and open-source web browser extension for Mozilla Firefox that facilitates the live debugging, editing, and monitoring of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, XHR, and JavaScript.
Firebug is licensed under the BSD license and was initially written in January 2006 by Joe Hewitt, one of the original Firefox creators. The Firebug Working Group oversees the open source development and extension of Firebug. It has two major implementations: an extension for Mozilla Firefox and a bookmarklet implementation called Firebug Lite which can be used with Google Chrome.
In addition to debugging web pages, Firebug is a useful tool for web security testing and web page performance analysis.
Firebug may refer to:
- Pyrrhocoris apterus, commonly referred as the firebug, an insect of the family Pyrrhocoridae
- a person who deliberately starts fires through:
- Firebug (comics), the name of three DC Comics supervillains
- Firebug (dinghy), class of sailing dinghy
- Firebug (video game), a 1982 computer game for the Apple II computer
- Firebugs (video game), a 2002 game for the PlayStation
- Firebug (software), a web development tool that facilitates the debugging, editing, and monitoring of any website's CSS, HTML, DOM, and JavaScript
- The Fire Raisers (play), 1953 German play by Max Frisch also known in English as The Firebugs
The Firebug is a class of sailing dinghy that was designed by John Spencer and Peter Tait of Auckland, New Zealand in 1995. It is a 2.4 m (8 foot) long sailing dinghy designed to be built quickly and easily by builders with no previous experience of boatbuilding. A detailed report was published in Watercraft Magazine.
Usage examples of "firebug".
And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.
Saturday night the same soldier drove a nine-passenger station wagon carrying Tough Tony and the other five men, picked up the Firebug, and continued on to the edge of Newark where a Big C truck hijacked the previous night was stashed.
Manfred's head and shoulders were abruptly invested with the tiny winkings of a thousand firebugs, but the sight faded against the red serpent shields, the Eika setting their trap and awaiting their prey, raising their spears.
They were sometimes referred to as the Holy Pyromaniacs or Firebugs for Christ.
Of course we have plenty of firebugs and pyromaniacs in a small way, but the big conspiracy has never come to my personal attention before.
Before I bring the raftsmen down the rivers from Kiev, through the canal and at last, after weeks of grueling toil, into the Vistula, there is a question to be considered: was Dückerhoff sure that this Wranka was Koljaiczek the firebug?
And so Koljaiczek became a firebug, and not just once, for throughout West Prussia in the days that followed, sawmills and woodlots provided fuel for a blazing bicolored national sentiment.
Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights, the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevanses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!
Manfred’s head and shoulders were abruptly invested with the tiny winkings of a thousand firebugs, but the sight faded against the red serpent shields, the Eika setting their trap and awaiting their prey, raising their spears.