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bugged up

bugged up is the simple past and past participle of bug up.

Meaning of bug up

Verb

bug up (third-person singular simple present bugs up, present participle bugging up, simple past and past participle bugged up)

  1. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular) To deliberately annoy or irk someone; to deliberately start a conflict with someone.
  2. (transitive) To install a bug (listening device) on a person, thing or place.

Questions about bugged up

What is bugged up the simple past and past participle of?
Bugged up is the simple past and past participle of bug up.

Words near bugged up in the dictionary

  1. bugged
  2. bugged down
  3. bugged in
  4. bugged off
  5. bugged out
  6. bugged up
  7. buggee
  8. buggees
  9. bugger
  10. bugger about
  11. bugger all

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugged up (page history and authors); bug up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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