bug

Tap a telephone or telegraph wire to get information.

“Is this hotel room bugged?”

Annoy persistently.

Insects with sucking mouthparts and forewings thickened and leathery at the base; usually show incomplete metamorphosis.

A fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine.

A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use.

A small hidden microphone; for listening secretly.

General term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate.