Usually means: Person constantly active and working.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. busy bee: Merriam-Webster
  2. busy bee: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. busy bee: Collins English Dictionary
  4. busy bee: Vocabulary.com
  5. busy bee: Wiktionary
  6. busy bee: Dictionary.com
  7. Busy Bee: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. busy bee: Rhymezone
  9. busy bee: FreeDictionary.org
  10. busy bee: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. busy bee: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. busy bee: Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. busy bee, busy bee, busy bee: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Busy bee: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. busy bee: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (busy bee)

▸ noun:  (colloquial) A hardworking person.

Similar:
sharpy, sharpie, eager beaver, live wire, busy beaver, beek, busy body, humblebee, beezer, busybody, more...

Opposite:
slacker, lazybones, idler, loafer

Types:
workaholic, overachiever, perfectionist, go-getter, high-flyer, more...

Phrases:
busy as a bee, 2019 Busy Bee Congo crash, more...

Adjectives:
swarmy, nuc, gnatlike, ratlike, croupy, scarecrowish, ratty, shrewlike, honeycombed, mothlike, apiarian

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Similar:
sharpy, sharpie, eager beaver, live wire, busy beaver, beek, busy body, humblebee, beezer, busybody, more...

Opposite:
slacker, lazybones, idler, loafer

Types:
workaholic, overachiever, perfectionist, go-getter, high-flyer, more...

Phrases:
busy as a bee, 2019 Busy Bee Congo crash, more...

Adjectives:
swarmy, nuc, gnatlike, ratlike, croupy, scarecrowish, ratty, shrewlike, honeycombed, mothlike, apiarian



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