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ladybugs

Coccinella \Coc`ci*nel"la\, n. [NL., fr. L. coccineus scarlet-colored. See Cochoneal.] (Zo["o]l.) A genus of small beetles of many species. They and their larv[ae] feed on aphids or plant lice, and hence are of great benefit to man. Also called ladybirds and ladybugs.

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ladybugs

n. (plural of ladybug English)

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Ladybugs (film)

Ladybugs is a 1992 American sports-comedy family film starring Rodney Dangerfield and directed by Sidney J. Furie. Dangerfield plays a Denver businessman who takes over a girls soccer team that the company he works for sponsors. The film also stars Jackée Harry as his assistant coach, Ilene Graff as his girlfriend, Jonathan Brandis as his girlfriend's son (and soon to be star of the team) and Vinessa Shaw as the boss's daughter and Matthew's love interest.

Then Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda has a cameo, as do Blake Clark and longtime Dangerfield friend Chuck McCann.

Usage examples of "ladybugs".

At the bottom of the log, he highlighted the most recent entry, the call received while he had been downstairs in his study, trying to make sense of ladybugs, snails, and foreskins.

This was the heavy fragrance of Broadway roses in his study when no roses had been there, the precious voice of his lost wife speaking of ladybugs in the white room.

When she came back, the ladybugs were gone—mostly gone—she still finds them tucked into her shoes, in the folds of her underwear, in her cereal bowls and her wineglasses, and between the pages of her books.

Surely one could not import ladybugs without importing aphids as well.

They ignored it, instead scrambling back toward the ladybugs, eager to pester them some more.