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/bʌɡ/ noun, verb · British & US
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What does bug mean?

noun, verb

A small insect, typically with a hard exoskeleton and multiple limbs. To detect and remove errors or flaws in a computer program or system.

Example

"The developer spent hours debugging the code to fix the bug."

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