Usually means: Error in software causing issues.
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We found 75 dictionaries that define the word bug:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bug, bug, the bug: Merriam-Webster
  2. bug, bug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bug: The Word Spy
  4. Bug, bug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. bug: Collins English Dictionary
  6. bug: Vocabulary.com
  7. Bug, bug: Wordnik
  8. bug: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Bug: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Bug, bug: Wiktionary
  11. bug: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. bug: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. bug: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. bug: Dictionary.com
  15. bug: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. bug: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. BUG (magazine), BUG, Bug (Breaking Bad), Bug (Dave Davies album), Bug (Dinosaur Jr. album), Bug (Dinosaur Jr album), Bug (Starship Troopers), Bug (comics), Bug (computer), Bug (computer programming), Bug (computing), Bug (disambiguation), Bug (engineering), Bug (film), Bug (play), Bug (poker), Bug (software), Bug (soundtrack), Bug (television), Bug, Bug, The Bug (horse), The Bug (musician), The Bug (song), The Bug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Bug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. bug: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. bug: Rhymezone
  21. Bug (m), bug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. bug: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. BUG: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  24. bug: MyWord.info
  25. bug: FreeDictionary.org
  26. bug: ESL Idiom Page
  27. bug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. Bug: TheFreeDictionary.com
  29. Bug: World Wide Words
  30. bug: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  31. bug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. bug: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. bug: Netlingo
  4. Bug, bug: CCI Computer
  5. Bug: Game Dictionary
  6. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  7. Bug: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  8. Webopedia (No longer online)
  9. Technopedia (No longer online)
  10. Bug (Rivers), Bug (computer), Bug (computing), Bug (disambiguation), Bug (insect), Bug (river), Bug (software), Bug (zoology), bug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bug (computer), Bug (computing), Bug (disambiguation), Bug (insect), Bug (software), Bug (zoology), bug: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BUG: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bug: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug, bug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. bug: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. B.U.G, bug (also called bed bug): Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bug: Dan's Poker
  2. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. bug: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. National Glass Association Glossary (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  8. bug: Television: Critical Methods and Applications

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (entomology) An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).
noun:  Any of various species of marine or freshwater crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.
noun:  (informal) Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.
noun:  (informal) Any minibeast.
noun:  (US) Any insect, arachnid, myriapod or entognath.
noun:  (UK, obsolete, specifically) A bedbug.
noun:  (chiefly computing, engineering jargon) A problem that needs fixing.
noun:  A contagious illness, or a pathogen causing it.
noun:  (informal) An enthusiasm for something; an obsession.
noun:  (informal) A keen enthusiast or hobbyist.
noun:  A concealed electronic eavesdropping or intercept device.
noun:  A small and usually invisible file (traditionally a single-pixel image) on a World Wide Web page, primarily used to track users.
noun:  (Maine) A lobster.
noun:  (broadcasting) A small, usually transparent or translucent image placed in a corner of a television program to identify the broadcasting network or cable channel.
noun:  (aviation) A manually positioned marker in flight instruments.
noun:  A semi-automated telegraph key.
noun:  (obsolete) Hobgoblin, scarecrow; anything that terrifies.
noun:  (chiefly LGBTQ, "the bug") HIV.
noun:  (poker) A limited form of wild card in some variants of poker.
noun:  (paleontology, slang) A trilobite.
noun:  (petroleum industry, slang, dated) Synonym of oil bug.
noun:  (slang, US, horse-racing) An asterisk denoting an apprentice jockey's weight allowance.
noun:  (slang, US, horse-racing, by extension) A young apprentice jockey.
noun:  (printing) Synonym of union bug.
noun:  (gambling, slang) A small piece of metal used in a slot machine to block certain winning combinations.
noun:  (gambling, slang) A metal clip attached to the underside of a table, etc. to hold hidden cards, as a form of cheating.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To annoy.
verb:  (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
verb:  (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
verb:  (intransitive, of eyes) To bulge or protrude.
noun:  A river flowing northwest 450 miles between Belarus and Poland and Ukraine (Western Bug).
noun:  A river in Ukraine (Southern Bug), flowing 530 miles to the Dnieper estuary.
noun:  (US, slang) A Volkswagen Beetle car.
noun:  (slang) A Bugatti car.

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