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bugs up

bugs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 bugs up

What is bugs up the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bugs up is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bug up.

Words near bugs up in the dictionary

  1. Bugs Bunny
  2. bugs down
  3. bugs in
  4. bugs off
  5. bugs out
  6. bugs up
  7. bugs up one's ass
  8. bugseed
  9. bugseeds
  10. bugsha
  11. bugshas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bugs 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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