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bug

 
 
/bʌg/ verb [T] (present participle bugging, past tense and past participle bugged)

Definition

LISTEN to hide a piece of equipment somewhere in order to secretly listen to people talking: [often passive] Their hotel room had been bugged.
ANNOY informal to annoy someone: He's been bugging me all morning.
(Definition of bug verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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