bug

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: bug

1	n	general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
2	v	annoy persistently
3	n v	a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information
4	n	a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: bug

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; 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; Cimex lectularius, bed bug, bedbug, chinch
bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood; Notonecta undulata, backswimmer
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; capsid, mirid, mirid bug
a variety of leaf bug; lace bug
small bug having body and wings covered with a lacy network of raised lines; Blissus leucopterus, chinch bug
small black-and-white insect that feeds on cereal grasses; Anasa tristis, squash bug
large black American bug that sucks sap of vines of the gourd family; leaf-foot bug, leaf-footed bug
large sap-sucking bug with leaflike expansions on the legs

Type of:: microphone, mike
device for converting sound waves into electrical energy

“Is this hotel room bugged?”

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