bug out v.1
1. (US) to leave, to run away.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | ‘Gloss. Air Force Sl.’ in AS XXX:2 117: BUG OUT; BOOGER OFF; LEAP OFF, v. phr. Leave suddenly and rapidly. | |
| (con. 1950) Band of Brothers 170: ‘The bug-out route. Nobody told me where it is.’ [...] ‘What the hell’s that?’ ‘Where you . . . bug out, pull back. We always had a bug-out route in advance.’. | |
| (con. 1950s) Unit Pride (1981) 28: He hadn’t issued orders either to bug out or to stay and fight. | |
| After Hours 46: Not far. Unless Betancourt has bugged out on me. | |
| Christine 67: ‘Bug out, Denis,’ Arnie said. | |
| (con. c.1970) Phantom Blooper 26: So if we be here to fight, why we bugging out? | |
| ‘Marshall Mathers’ 🎵 Ask ’em about the club they was at when they snuck out / after they ducked out the back when they saw us and bugged out. | |
| August Snow [ebook] Frank and I had to bug out quick. | |
| ‘Sunset’ in Broken 206: ‘If you thought that was true [...] you wouldn’t have bugged out’. |
2. to default on one’s duties.
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | With Australians in Korea 55: The retreat from Yopa-ri to Hayu-ri [...] lives in the memory of many 3rd Battalion men as their worst day in Korea. [...] They felt they were ‘buggin’ out’. | |
| in Body Shop 64: They tried to put us on detail, but we could bug out. | |
| World War III (1979) 95: Hell of a nice kid. Until we started seeing action. Then he started bugging out. | |
| Border [ebook] [B]oth went on missions against the Zetas and the Tapia organization. They won’t bug out. |
3. attrib., pertaining to escape.
 | see sense 1. | |
| Q&A 71: I’m sorry, Chappie. It’s bugout time. No other way. | |
| (con. 1967) Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 15: Always leave yourself a bug-out route. |