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| NOUN | 1 | bug | General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate |
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| 2 | bug, glitch | A fault or defect in a system or machine | |
| 3 | bug | A small hidden microphone | |
| 4 | bug, hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron | Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base | |
| 5 | bug, microbe, germ | A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium) | |
| VERB | 1 | bug, tease, badger, pester, beleaguer | Annoy persistently |
| 2 | bug, wiretap, tap, intercept | Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information |
| Sounds | bah'g |
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| Rhymes | bedbug, chug, debug, and 21 more rhymes in ahg... |
| Meaning | General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate. |
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| Broader | insect |
| Adjectives | buggy; buggy |
| Meaning | A fault or defect in a system or machine. |
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| Synonyms | glitch |
| Broader | defect, fault, flaw |
| Meaning | A small hidden microphone. For listening secretly. |
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| Broader | microphone, mike |
| Verbs | bug |
| Meaning | Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base. Usually show incomplete metamorphosis. |
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| Synonyms | hemipterous insect, hemipteran, hemipteron |
| Member of | Hemiptera, order Hemiptera |
| Broader | insect |
| Narrower | leaf bug, plant bug; lygaeid, lygaeid bug; coreid bug, coreid; bedbug, bed bug, chinch, Cimex lectularius; backswimmer, Notonecta undulata; true bug |
| Meaning | A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium). The term is not in technical use. |
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| Synonyms | microbe, germ |
| Broader | microorganism, micro-organism |
| Meaning | Annoy persistently. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
| Model | They bug him to write the letter |
| Synonyms | tease, badger, pester, beleaguer |
| Broader | torment, rag, bedevil, crucify, dun, frustrate |
| Meaning | Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
| Model | They want to bug the prisoners |
| Examples | "Is this hotel room bugged?" |
| Synonyms | wiretap, tap, intercept |
| Broader | listen in, eavesdrop |
| Nouns | bug |
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