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devil’s coach-horse

dev·il's coach-horse (plural dev·il's coach-hors·es)


noun 
Definition:
 
U.K. large fierce beetle: a large fierce black beetle with long jaws. Family Staphylinidae.
See also  rove beetle


[< the rearing and defiant attitude that it assumes when disturbed]
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