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• n  a criminal who illegally sets fire to property
• n  a true bug: brightly colored bug that can exude a stain

• Ranger MacMurray is too interested in hunting down a firebug to pay much attention to either of them.
• He charged that there had been no letter; that John Barton denied ever writing letters to her; that her love-gone-bad story was the silly fiction of a cornered firebug.
• The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with an untimely burp, and assorted psychopaths.

• arsonist
• incendiary

News & Articles

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• Old Glory set afire at tavern
  An unpatriotic firebug set an American flag ablaze outside a Midtown bar where the owner had hung it to celebrate becoming a US citizen just days earlier. John Doherty, 42, said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw that Old Glory had been torched outside his Playwrights Irish...
  July 9, 2013 - New York Post
• One day after July 4, nut burns flag flown by proud new citizen
  Robert Mecea A SHAME: THE RUINED AWNING WHERE THE FLAG FLEW. An unpatriotic firebug set an American flag ablaze outside a Midtown bar where the owner had hung it to celebrate becoming a US citizen just days earlier. John Doherty, 42, said he couldn’t believe his eyes when he...
  July 9, 2013 - New York Post