Usually means: Large beetle with horn-like projections.
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  1. hornbug: Collins English Dictionary
  2. hornbug: Wordnik
  3. hornbug: Wiktionary
  4. Hornbug, hornbug: Dictionary.com
  5. Hornbug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. hornbug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Hornbug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. hornbug: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Hornbug: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. hornbug: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (hornbug)

noun:  (dated) Any of several species of genus Lucanus of large nocturnal beetles, with long, curved upper jaws resembling a sickle, and whose grubs are found in the trunks of old trees.

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