bugs

American

[buhgz] / bʌgz /

adjective

Slang.

crazy; insane.

Etymology

Origin of bugs

First recorded in 1920–25; bug ¹, -s ³

Example Sentences

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It doesn’t want to spend money vaccinating children against bugs they are unlikely to encounter, even if they could be hospitalized if they do.

From The Wall Street Journal

The park has giant bugs and a tube slide.

From Los Angeles Times

Cursor, an AI start-up, is seeing accelerating demand for its programming assistant, which enables programmers to autocomplete code, fix bugs faster, and automate boilerplate tasks.

From Barron's

They have taken advantage of the long summer days in Siberia, or Mongolia, feasting on bugs and berries.

From BBC

The revelation directly contradicts the Post Office's claims during criminal prosecutions - which led to hundreds of wrongful convictions and civil cases that destroyed livelihoods - that no bugs existed capable of causing accounting shortfalls.

From BBC

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