noun
There's a bug on your collar
She's caught some kind of bug and won't be in for a few days
Almost everyone in those days succumbed to the hula hoop bug
She's turned into a fruit machine bug
They planted a bug in the ambassador's telephone
There's a bug in the program that's preventing the list from being sorted. They can't market the device till they've ironed out all the bugs
verb
I wish Mum'd stop bugging me about my homework
They bugged her phone and recorded all her conversations
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