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Bug

noun

1.

General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.

2.

A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine. Synonym: glitch.

3.

A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.

4.

Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis. Synonyms: hemipteran, hemipteron, hemipterous insect.

5.

A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use. Synonyms: germ, microbe.

verb

1.

Annoy persistently. Synonyms: badger, beleaguer, pester, tease.

2.

Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information. Synonyms: intercept, tap, wiretap. "Is this hotel room bugged?"

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"Bug" Quotes from Famous Books

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— Philaster - Love Lies a Bleeding • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... that for about half an hour I felt like the gate gard of a bug house. I got hold of the Lootenant in a friendly way an told him Id go halves on my bunk with him cause I didnt think it was safe to sleep with that fello. He might think he was a crum some night an try to choke somebody. The Lootenant said that was just a way they had of telefonin up ...

— "Same old Bill, eh Mable!" • Edward Streeter

... homologous bones in widely different animals. We see the same great law in the construction of the mouths of insects: what can be more different than the immensely long spiral proboscis of a sphinx-moth, the curious folded one of a bee or bug, and the great jaws of a beetle?—yet all these organs, serving for such different purposes, are formed by infinitely numerous modifications of an upper lip, mandibles, and two pairs of maxillae. Analogous laws govern the construction ...

— On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection • Charles Darwin

... trade! That's just a piece o' masters' humbug. It's rate o' wages I was talking of. Th' masters keep th' state o' trade in their own hands; and just walk it forward like a black bug-a-boo, to frighten naughty children with into being good. I'll tell yo' it's their part,—their cue, as some folks call it,—to beat us down, to swell their fortunes; and it's ours to stand up and fight hard,—not for ourselves alone, but for them round about ...

— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... pleasant. Like the itch that comes after a fast swim in the salty sea and a dry-out in the bright sun, when the drying salt water makes your skin itch with the vibrant pleasure of just being alive. This is not like the bite of any bug, but the kind that makes you want to take another dive into the ocean instead of trying to scratch it with your claws. Well, the itch in my finger had been one of the pleasant kinds. I could sort of scratch it away by taking the steel-hard part ...

— Highways in Hiding • George Oliver Smith

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