Meaning & use
Bug
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A small insect, or, in technology, an error or flaw in a computer program that causes it to malfunction.
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A bug crawled across the picnic blanket.
The developers spent all night fixing a bug in the payment system.
A note on using this word
The technology sense is often traced, likely apocryphally, to a moth found stuck in a relay of the Harvard Mark II computer in 1947.
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To annoy or irritate someone persistently.
Stop bugging me about the deadline, I already know.
3. verb
To secretly install a hidden listening device to spy on someone.
Investigators bugged the suspect's office phone.
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