{{wiktionary|Bug|bug}} '''Bug''' or '''BUG''' may refer to: {{TOC right}} ==Common uses== <!-- at the top--> * A terrestrial arthropod animal, usually with at least six legs ** Insect, a six-legged arthropod ***Hemiptera, the true bugs * Volkswagen Beetle, an automobile nicknamed the "Bug" * A colloquialism for most minibeasts including arthropods, gastropods and worms * Covert listening device, used in surveillance and espionage * Bug (engineering), a defect in an engineered system ** Software bug ** Hardware bug ** BUG (tag), a computer programming comment tag * Score bug, overlaid display of information in a sports broadcast *Pathogen, colloquially * A slang term for annoying someone
==Arts, entertainment and media== ===Fictional entities=== * Bug (Marvel Comics), a superhero in Marvel Comics * Bug (DC Comics), different characters appearing in DC Comics * Bug (''Starship Troopers''), an alien race from the novel and film * Bug, Michael Lee's younger brother in ''The Wire'' * Bug, in the TV series ''WordWorld'' * Bobby "Bug" Guthrie, in the TV series ''Life Unexpected''
===Film and television=== * ''Bug'' (1975 film), an American horror film * ''Bug'' (2002 film), an American comedy film * ''Bug'' (2006 film), a psychological horror film adaptation of the Tracy Letts play * ''Bug'', a 2017 film starring Gene Jones * "Bug" (''Breaking Bad''), a 2011 TV episode
===Gaming=== * Bug (poker), a limited form of wild card * Bug, a ''Pokémon'' type * ''Bug!'', a 1995 video game * Bughouse chess, or bug, a chess variant played on two boards
===Music=== ====Albums==== * ''Bug'' (Dinosaur Jr. album), 1988 * ''Bug'' (Dave Davies album), 2002 * ''Bug'' (soundtrack), of the 2006 film * ''Bug'' (Kacy Hill album), 2024
====Songs==== * "Bug", a song by Feeder from the 2001 album ''Echo Park'' * "Bug", a song by Fontaines D.C. from the 2024 album ''Romance'' * "Bug", a song by Lower Than Atlantis from the 2011 album ''World Record'' * "Bug", a song by Phish from the 2000 album ''Farmhouse'' * "The Bug", a 1992 song by Dire Straits
===Other uses in arts, entertainment and media=== * ''Bug'' (magazine), a Croatian magazine * ''Bug'' (play), by Tracy Letts, 1993
==Businesses and organizations== * Bicycle User Group, a group set up to promote cycling issues *Bug Multisystem, an Israeli consumer electronics retail company
==People== * Bug Hall (born 1985), an American actor * Bug Holliday (1867–1910), an American baseball player * Bug Howard (born 1994), an American football player * Amy Bug, American physicist * Enric Bug (born 1957), pseudonym Bug Rogers, a Spanish comic book artist and industrial designer * The Bug (musician), a recording alias for British musician Kevin Martin
==Places== * Bug (river) or Western Bug, a river in Poland, Ukraine and Belarus * Southern Bug, Southern Buh or Boh, a river in Ukraine * Bug (Rügen), a spit and former village on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany * Bug, Kentucky, a settlement in Clinton County, Kentucky, in the United States * Bag, Qasr-e Qand, also called Būg, a village in Sistan and Baluchestan Province, Iran
==Science and technology== * Slipper lobster (Scyllaridae), a number of species of which are called "bug" * Bug, a digital on-screen graphic of a broadcaster's logo * Bug, a Morse key design by Vibroplex * Bug algorithm, a pathfinding algorithm especially for wheeled robot * Web beacon or web bug, a tracking object embedded in a web page or e-mail
==Transportation== * Bond Bug, a British three-wheeled car * Dudly Bug, an early gas-powered cyclecar * Sandlin Bug, an American ultralight glider design * Bug railway station, in Pakistan * Bagaha railway station, Bihar, a railway station in India, station code BUG * Burgess Hill railway station, a railway station in Sussex, England
==Other uses== * Buginese language, ISO 639 language code bug * The Bug (horse) (1943–1963), an Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse * Travel Bug, a trackable item used in Geocaching
==See also== {{srt}} * Bugg (disambiguation) * Bugged (disambiguation) * Bugs (disambiguation) * Annoyance, an unpleasant mental state * Pathogen, an organism that causes disease * Dudley Bug, an extinct trilobite * Debugging, in computer programming and software development * Union label or union bug, a label marking a product made by union workers
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