bug

Definition

  • noun: a usually small insect
  • noun: an insect or other creeping or crawling invertebrate (as a spider or centipede)
  • verb: to bother or annoy (someone)
  • verb: to plant a concealed microphone in
  • often used before another noun
  • synonyms: bogey, bugbear, germ

Examples

  • They've been trying to work/get the 'bugs' out of the system. [=trying to fix the system's problems]

  • He was first bitten by 'the' acting 'bug' [=he first became interested in acting] when he was 18.

  • Her legs were covered in 'bug' bites. [=itchy or painful wounds from insects]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) The odds against were -to-, and he'd know that. When he did his first raise he had nothing. Winning was blind luck. -Did you get the bug? -Yes. Bet. One hundred thousand. Thank you. It's your play, Monsieur Fukutu. Maybe he can actually pull this off. (..)
    2006 Casino Royale
  • (..) There's a four-dollar word, Mr. H. My family always just call them Nighthowlers. I'm sor.. What did you say? Kid's talking about those flowers, Judy. I use them to keep the bugs off the produce, but I don't like the little ones going near them on acoount of what happened to your uncle Terry. (..)
    2016 Zootopia
  • (..) in a tin shithouse. That's enough out of you. -Heard he had you shitting your pants. -Fuck you. Knock it off. Brooks ain't no bug. He's just institutionalized. "Institutionalized," my ass. The man's been in here years, Heywood, years! This is all he knows. (..)
    1994 The Shawshank Redemption