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bugging

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈbʌɡɪŋ//

Electronic surveillance.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of bugpresent participle and gerund of bug

noun

  1. 1

    Electronic surveillance.

    The buggings executed by the FBI not only revealed a great deal about the Cosa Nostra's activities, they also revealed a great deal about how the Cosa Nostra felt about the Kennedys.

Forms

plural
buggings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).