doodlebug in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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The engineer, conductor and a railroad employee managed to jump free, though they were badly injured; but no-one else on the doodlebug survived.
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Its etymology is uncertain, but it may be a variation of doodlebug, a railroad term for certain types of small, self-propelled cars.
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Although this is not when the doodlebug term was coined, it was probably around the same time that railroaders created this nickname.
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The audience comes to realise that every move that the doodlebug makes the man reciprocates a second later.
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To do all this, the doodlebug needed good ground clearance for use in any conditions, going under trees, and climbing almost any terrain.
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It got knocked around a bit during the blitz and by doodlebugs.
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It is this ability which gives woodlice in this family their common name of pill bugs or roly polies, or doodlebugs.
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