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Bug   /bəg/   Listen
Bug

noun
1.
General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.
2.
A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine.  Synonym: glitch.
3.
A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.
4.
Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.  Synonyms: hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect.
5.
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.  Synonyms: germ, microbe.
verb
1.
Annoy persistently.  Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, pester, tease.
2.
Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.  Synonyms: intercept, tap, wiretap.  "Is this hotel room bugged?"



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"Bug" Quotes from Famous Books



... the bug? Where's the nut? Delaney, did you lock the gates? Look under the bench!" These and other remarks, not exactly elegant, attested to the mental processes of some of the Stars. Red Gilbat did not appear to be forthcoming. ...
— The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories • Zane Grey
... the oddest girl here," this young lady wrote home. "She has n't read any book that is n't a thousand years old. One of the girls says she wears a trilobite for a breastpin; some horrid old stone, I believe that is, that was a bug ever so long ago. Her name, she says, is Myrtle Hazard, but I ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
... more coal I heard a voice shout, "Began with an explosion - it's the fire- bug, all right." I looked up. It was McCormick, dripping and grimy, in a high state of excitement, ...
— The Poisoned Pen • Arthur B. Reeve
... reform papers and magazines; out of these they might get the truth. The publishers of such are unable to send their periodicals for less than cost. Not so the party in power. Thousands of people get complimentary copies of the gold-bug papers, and other thousands get them for a nominal sum. Somebody ...
— The Arena - Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 • Various
... were faced with broad wooden balconies stained blood-red and turquoise, umber and yellow, gold and pale green; and all of these were crowded to bursting with the blue and white horny chests and the big-eyed faces of the bug things. Weaver swung in his revolving seat past first one level and another, and the twittering voices burst around him like the stars of ...
— The Worshippers • Damon Francis Knight


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