bug
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Is bug a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
2. (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.Examples: "These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them."informal
3. (informal) Any minibeast.informal
4. (US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.US
5. (UK, obsolete, specifically) A bedbug.Examples: "Speaking of advertising changes of name, a title by which those lodging-house pests, bugs, are now often known, that of Norfolk Howards, is derived from an advertisement in which one Ephraim Bug avowed his intention of being for the future known as Norfolk Howard."; "Bugs are generated from the moisture of living animals, as it dries up outside their bodies. Lice are generated out of the flesh of animals."UKobsoletespecifically
6. (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.Examples: "The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 3."; "I have the right principle and am on the right track, but time, hard work and some good luck are necessary too. It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise — this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs" — as such little faults and difficulties are called — show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is certainly reached."; "A... leading aluminum producer claims it has worked all the bugs out of building and servicing aluminum radiators, says it hopes to have a large chunk of the radiator market by the early nineteen seventies."Synonyms: defect, glitchjargon
verb (English)
1. (informal, transitive) To annoy.Examples: "Don’t bug me, I’m busy!"informaltransitive
2. (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.Examples: "I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week."informalintransitive
3. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.Examples: "We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house."transitive
4. (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.Examples: "I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open. There must have been 25 women in the room. I don't think I had ever seen so many lesbians all together in one place before."intransitive
5. (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.Examples: "You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]"transitive
noun (English)
1. (US, slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.Synonyms: BeetleUSslang
noun (English)
1. (slang) A Bugatti car.slang
Definition source: Wiktionary