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LITTERBUG
Definition of LITTERBUG
noun
A person who tends to drop litter and not clean it up.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From litter + bug. Coined in 1947 by New York copywriter Paul B. Gioni for The American Ad Council, perhaps punning on jitterbug.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
How it is built
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
LITTERBUG in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 2 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 137, 4 October 2026. The most recent board was Day 138, 5 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 31 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 137, 4 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
LITTERBUG starts with L and ends with G. Sorted, its letters read BEGILRTTU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. T appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start LITTER
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found LITTERBUG?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 137 - and most players walked straight past it.
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