bugging

Verb

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

1. (informal, transitive) To annoy.
   • Don’t bug me, I’m busy!
2. (informal, intransitive) To act suspiciously or irrationally, especially in a way that annoys others.
   • I'm worried about Wallace. He's been buggin' all week.
3. (transitive) To install an electronic listening device or devices in.
   • We need to know what’s going on. We’ll bug his house.

   Synonyms:

   wire

4. (intransitive) 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.1979 April 28, Lois H. Johnson, “Ten Years of Boston DOB: A Personal Memoir”, in Gay Community News, page 8
5. (transitive) To represent (a value) using a bug on an instrument.
   • You (or the autopilot) are still steering to the bugged heading […]1996 April 5, Tom Horne, “Engage FD, and follow the bars”, in AOPA Turbine Pilot

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