Usually means: Prepare to evacuate quickly, emergency.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug out: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bug out: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bug out: Collins English Dictionary
  4. bug out: Vocabulary.com
  5. bug-out: Wordnik
  6. bug out: Wiktionary
  7. bug out: Dictionary.com
  8. Bug Out, Bug-out, Bug-out (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. bug out: Rhymezone
  10. bug out: Free Dictionary
  11. bug out: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. bug out: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bug out: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bug out: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug out, bug out: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bug out: 1960's Slang
  3. bug-out, bug out: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bug out)

verb:  (slang, intransitive, originally military) To leave (a place) hastily.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To abandon someone without warning.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To miss school, play truant, play hooky.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To leave civilization to live off the grid; to escape an apocalypse or emergency by leaving the area.
verb:  (slang, transitive, of one's eyes) To cause to bulge.
verb:  (slang, intransitive, of eyes) To bulge; to protrude.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To freak out, to go crazy, e.g. from worry.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, computing) To crash or glitch.
noun:  (military, slang) A rapid retreat, a rout.

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