bug

An insect of the order Hemiptera (the “true bugs”).

Any of various species of marine (saltwater or freshwater) crustaceans; e.g. a Moreton Bay bug, mudbug.

Bugs, oysters, prawns and crabs […] are plated up on the decks of four side-by-side trawlers bobbing on the calm waters of Trinity Inlet.

Any insect, arachnid, or other terrestrial arthropod that is a pest.

These flies are a bother. I’ll get some bug spray and kill them.

Any minibeast.

Any minibeast.

To annoy.

Don’t bug me, I’m busy!

To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.

I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.

To install an electronic listening device or devices in.

We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

To bulge or protrude.

I well remember the combination of excitement and apprehension with which I tentatively entered my first "rap." My eyes bugged open. There must have been 25 women in the room. I don't think I had ever seen so many lesbians all together in one place before.

To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.

You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]

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.