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n. (animal) | 1. bug | general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate. |
| ~ insect | small air-breathing arthropod. |
n. (state) | 2. bug, glitch | a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine. |
| ~ flaw, fault, defect | an imperfection in an object or machine.; "a flaw caused the crystal to shatter"; "if there are any defects you should send it back to the manufacturer" |
n. (artifact) | 3. bug | a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly. |
| ~ microphone, mike | device for converting sound waves into electrical energy. |
n. (animal) | 4. bug, hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect | insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis. |
| ~ insect | small air-breathing arthropod. |
| ~ hemiptera, order hemiptera | plant bugs; bedbugs; some true bugs; also includes suborders Heteroptera (true bugs) and Homoptera (e.g., aphids, plant lice and cicadas). |
| ~ leaf bug, plant bug | small bright-colored insect that feeds on plant juices. |
| ~ lygaeid, lygaeid bug | a true bug: usually bright-colored; pest of cultivated crops and some fruit trees. |
| ~ coreid, coreid bug | a true bug. |
| ~ bed bug, bedbug, chinch, cimex lectularius | bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood. |
| ~ backswimmer, notonecta undulata | predaceous aquatic insect that swims on its back and may inflict painful bites. |
| ~ true bug | any of various insects of the order Hemiptera and especially of the suborder Heteroptera. |
n. (animal) | 5. bug, germ, microbe | a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use. |
| ~ micro-organism, microorganism | any organism of microscopic size. |
v. (emotion) | 6. badger, beleaguer, bug, pester, tease | annoy persistently.; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" |
| ~ bedevil, dun, rag, crucify, frustrate, torment | treat cruelly.; "The children tormented the stuttering teacher" |
v. (perception) | 7. bug, intercept, tap, wiretap | tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" |
| ~ eavesdrop, listen in | listen without the speaker's knowledge.; "the jealous man was eavesdropping on his wife's conversations" |
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