bug
buhg
- n general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
- n a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
- n a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
- n insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
- n a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use
- v annoy persistently
- v tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
Is this hotel room bugged?
- Bed bugs are backand these pests are hard to get rid of.
- Dan Burton thinks the White House bugs his phone.
- Even the experts are stumped by the classification of a tiny bug found under a sycamore tree.