Usually means: Year 2000 computer programming flaw.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. millennium bug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. millennium bug: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. millennium bug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. millennium bug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. millennium bug: Wordnik
  6. millennium bug: Wiktionary
  7. millennium bug: Dictionary.com
  8. millennium bug: FreeDictionary.org
  9. millennium bug: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. Millennium bug: World Wide Words

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. millennium bug: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. millennium bug: CCI Computer
  3. millennium bug: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. millennium bug: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (millennium bug)

noun:  (computing) A design flaw in computer systems that represented years as two digits (e.g. 84 for 1984), which could cause date calculations to fail if they involved years later than 1999.

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