bug off

verb

bugged off; bugging off; bugs off

intransitive verb

: leave, depart

—usually used as a command

Synonyms

• bail
• bail out
• begone
• book [slang]
• bug out
• bugger off [British slang]
• buzz (off)
• clear off [chiefly British]
• clear out
• cut out
• depart
• dig out
• exit
• get
• get off
• go
• go off
• move
• pack (up or off)
• part
• peel off
• pike (out or off)
• pull out
• push off
• push on
• quit
• run along
• sally (forth)
• scarper [British]
• shove (off)
• step (along)
• take off
• vamoose
• walk out

Examples of bug off in a Sentence

I wish you would just bug off and leave me alone

Recent Examples on the Web

The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special Valentine’s Day greeting for exes who just won’t bug off. —Yenny Sanchez, CNN, 29 Jan. 2023

Word History

Etymology

probably short for bugger off

First Known Use

1952, in the meaning defined above