| Webster's Online Dictionary |
Date "BEETLE-CRUSHER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1898. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Literature | Beetle-crusher A large, flat foot. The expression was first used in Punch, in one of Leech's caricatures. Those who know London know how it is overrun with cockroaches, wrongly called black-beetles. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
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