1. an insect with hard wing covers and biting mouthparts

1. to move quickly or hurry
Usage: informal
2. to stick out or overhang

Examples

• A black beetle crawled across the kitchen floor.
• The dung beetle rolled the ball of manure away.
• She beetled down the hallway to catch the phone.
• He beetled off to the store before it closed.
• The cliff beetles over the ocean below.
• His bushy eyebrows beetle over his eyes.
• The old building’s upper floors beetle out over the street.