noun
- an insect with hard wing covers and biting mouthparts
verb
- to move quickly or hurry
- to stick out or overhang
Usage: informal
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.