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