bugged out
窃窃私语,窃喜,窃听,窃喜不已
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Definitions
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- : Also called true bug, hemipteran, hemipteron. a hemipterous insect.
- : any insect or insectlike invertebrate.
- : Informal. any microorganism, especially a virus: He was laid up for a week by an intestinal bug.
- : Informal. a defect or imperfection, as in a mechanical device, computer program, or plan; glitch: The test flight discovered the bugs in the new plane.
- : Informal. a person who has a great enthusiasm for something; fan or hobbyist: a hi-fi bug.a craze or obsession: He's got the sports-car bug.
- : Informal. a hidden microphone or other electronic eavesdropping device.any of various small mechanical or electrical gadgets, as one to influence a gambling device, give warning of an intruder, or indicate location.
- : a mark, as an asterisk, that indicates a particular item, level, etc.
- : Horse Racing. the five-pound weight allowance that can be claimed by an apprentice jockey.
- : a telegraph key that automatically transmits a series of dots when moved to one side and one dash when moved to the other.
- : Poker Slang. a joker that can be used only as an ace or as a wild card to fill a straight or a flush.
- : Printing. a label printed on certain matter to indicate that it was produced by a union shop.
- : any of various fishing plugs resembling an insect.
- : Chiefly British. a bedbug.
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bugged, bug·ging.Informal.
- : to install a secret listening device in or on: The phone had been bugged.
- : to bother; annoy; pester: She's bugging him to get her into show business.
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- : bug off, Slang. to leave or depart, especially rapidly: I can't help you, so bug off.
- : bug out, Slang. to flee in panic; show panic or alarm.
Phrases
- bug off
- bug out
- cute as a button (bug's ear)
- put a bug in someone's ear
- snug as a bug in a rug
- what's eating (bugging) you
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
A scuffle with WordPress, the website-building service, erupted last week after Apple booted the developer from the App Store, preventing WordPress from issuing updates, such as bug fixes, to its iOS app.
The secrecy, at least for the people who helped design the system, is a feature not a bug.
In Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard described her horror at watching a frog whose innards were liquefied and then sucked dry by a giant water bug.
Google has now explained the massive search bug from yesterday was related to an issue with its indexing systems.
Google has had some search bugs over the past year, mostly around crawling and indexing.
I was thinking about retiring from modeling, but spending that time with them rekindled that bug.
But is bug protein really any better than traditional protein sources, like chicken, or your go-to protein powder?
Read on to find out what you need to know before whipping up bug-infused banana bread.
Underneath, a miniature version of the bug-crazy man is revealed, himself thwacking away in an alternate dimension.
Their company, Ready to Go Survival, sells prepacked survival, or “bug out,” bags and kits.
The men stood around bug-eyed and stared incredulously—all but High-Pockets.
Both were bitten by the gambling bug in Saratoga and went West, not to grow up with, but to fairly conquer the country.
In reality it is only the female which is the lightning bug, for the male is not equipped with any lighting power.
The proverb should read, "It is the early bird that catches the bug," and different birds have different ways of going about it.
When a duck goes after a bug he acts much like a ball player trying to steal a base.