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firebug
noun- an arsonist; a person with a pathological love of fire US, 1872
- It was wonderfully exhilarating. I guess everybody has a little of the instinct of a firebug. — Harry Grey, The Hoods, p. 209, 1952
- You are going to catch all the firebugs and make everybody safe in their beds. — George V. Higgins, The Rat on Fire, p. 7, 1981
- Jesus Bernal yearned to abandon Skip Wiley’s circus and rejoin his old gang of dedicated extortionists, bombers, and firebugs. — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 135, 1986
- in poker, a player who bets and plays in a reckless fashion US
- — John Vorhaus, The Big Pook of Poker Slang, p. 16, 1996
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