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general term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate a small hidden microphone; for listening secretly a fault or defect in a system or machine a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis annoy persistently; "The children teased the boy because of his stammer" tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information; "The FBI was tapping the phone line of the suspected spy"; "Is this hotel room bugged?" |
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