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bug


bug - noun

  • general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
  • a fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
  • a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly
  • insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis
  • a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

    • bug - verb

    • annoy persistently
    • tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information

    bug - thesaurus

    badger   beleaguer   germ   glitch   hemipteran   hemipteron   intercept   microbe   pester   tap   tease   wiretap  

    Scrabble score for bug

    b is 3 u is 1 g is 2
    Scrabble score = 6

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