Meaning & Definition of Beetle in English

1. Insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

2. A tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden)

• Used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

1. Be suspended over or hang over

• "This huge rock beetles over the edge of the town"

2. Fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• "He beetled up the staircase"

• "They beetled off home"

3. Beat with a beetle

1. Jutting or overhanging

• "Beetle brows"