bug out (English, verb)
expansion: bug out (third-person singular simple present bugs out, present participle bugging out, simple past and past participle bugged out)
Senses:
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To abandon someone without warning.
tags: intransitive
slang
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To miss school, play truant, play hooky.
tags: intransitive
slang
glosses: To leave (a place) hastily.
To leave civilization to live off the grid; to escape an apocalypse or emergency by leaving the area.
tags: intransitive
slang
glosses: To cause to bulge.
tags: slang
transitive
raw_tags: of one's eyes
glosses: To bulge; to protrude.
tags: intransitive
slang
raw_tags: of eyes
glosses: To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry.
tags: intransitive
slang
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To crash or glitch.
tags: intransitive
slang
Forms:
form: bugs out
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: bugging out
tags: participle
present
form: bugged out
tags: participle
past
form: bugged out
tags: past