Bug or BUG may refer to:

Common uses

  • 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

  • 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