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▸ 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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