antibug

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ bug

Adjective

antibug (not comparable)

  1. Serving to kill or repel bugs (insects).
    • 1961, Felix Greene, Awakened China: the country Americans don't know
      The vegetables when they started to grow in this plot seemed pretty sickly until one day a group of medical students doused them with antibug powder...
    • 1972, The Popular Science Monthly
      Use it with an antibug candle and it wards off pests while it lights your patio.
    • 2009, Terra Wellington, The Mom's Guide to Growing Your Family Green
      Replace your outdoor porch lights with antibug lights, which have a special yellow coating...
  2. Serving to counteract bugs (surveillance devices).
    • 1975, Alan LeMond, Ron Fry, No place to hide
      The infinity mike and the harmonica bug have the great advantage of being undetectable by an antibug detector.
    • 1991, John C Klotter, Jacqueline R Kanovitz, Constitutional Law, 1992 Supplement
      Also, bugs are subject to malfunction and discovery, especially as sophisticated antibug devices have been developed.
    • 1998, Robert Ludlum, The Matarese Countdown
      Breaking antibug commercial phones was no problem for the intercepting devices of the government.

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