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Singular
bug

Plural
bugs

bug (plural bugs)

  1. An insect of the order Hemiptera (the "true bugs").
  2. A colloquial name for any insect or arachnid that is a pest.
    These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.
  3. Various species of marine crustaceans; e.g. a Morton Bay bug.
  4. A problem that needs fixing, especially in computing.
    The software bug led the computer to calculate 2 plus 2 as 5.
  5. A contagious illness; a bacterium or virus causing it
    He’s got the flu bug.
  6. An enthusiasm for something; an obsession
    I think he’s a gold bug, he has over 10,000 ounces in storage.
    to catch the skiing bug
  7. An electronic intercept device
    We installed a bug in her telephone
  8. A small and and usually invisible file (traditionally a single pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
    He suspected the image was a web bug used for determining who was visiting the site.
  9. A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to indicate what network or cable channel is televising it
    Channel 4's bug distracted Jim from his favorite show
  10. (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments
  11. A semi-automated telegraph key
    • 1938, Paul Gallico, Farewell to Sport, p257
      At this point your telegraph operator, sitting at your right, goes "Ticky-tick-tickety-de-tick-tick," with his bug, as he calls his transmitter, and looks at you expectantly.
    • 1942, Arthur Reinhold Nilson, Radio Code Manual, p134
      As far as the dashes are concerned, the bug is the same in operation as any regular key would be if it were turned up on edge instead of sitting flat on the desk.
    • 1986, E. L. Doctorow, World's Fair, p282
      I was a very good radio operator. I bought my own bug. That's what the telegraph key in its modern form was called. It was semiautomatic.

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Infinitive
to bug

Third person singular
bugs

Simple past
bugged

Past participle
bugged

Present participle
bugging

to bug (third-person singular simple present bugs, present participle bugging, simple past and past participle bugged)

  1. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
    Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
  2. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
    We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

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From Old Norse búkr.

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bug c. (singular definite bugen, plural indefinite buge)

  1. stomach
  2. abdomen
  3. belly

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