tow-bug

tow bug

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cigarette beetle

noun
a small cylindrical beetle, Lasioderma serricorne, that is a pest, especially of dried tobacco.
Also called tobacco beetle, tow bug.


Origin:
1890–95

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Tow-bug is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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