Usually means: Aquatic insect, often mistaken cockroach.
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  1. water bug: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. water bug: Merriam-Webster
  3. water bug: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. water bug: Collins English Dictionary
  5. water bug: Vocabulary.com
  6. water-bug, water bug: Wordnik
  7. water bug: Wiktionary
  8. water bug: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. water bug: Dictionary.com
  10. Water bug: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Water bug: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. water bug: Rhymezone
  13. Water bug: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. water bug: FreeDictionary.org
  15. water bug: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. water bug: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. water bug: Encyclopedia

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  1. water bug: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See water_bugs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (water bug)

noun:  Any member of the infraorder Nepomorpha, the true water bugs.
noun:  Any of various other true bugs that live around water.
noun:  An American cockroach of species Periplaneta americana.
noun:  An oriental cockroach of species Blatta orientalis.

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