beetle

Từ điển tiếng Anh - Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary

beetle UK [ˈbiː.tl ̩] US [-t ̬l ̩] noun countable [ beetles ]
an insect with a hard shell-like back
• a black beetle
• a death watch beetle
• a dung beetle
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Insect names
 
verb intransitive UK informal
to go somewhere quickly
• Hoping to miss the traffic jams, she beetled off home at four o'clock.
Thesaurus⁺: ↑Moving quickly

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  beetling, mallet, overhang