Bug or BUG may refer to:
Common uses A terrestrial arthropod animal, usually with at least six legs Insect, a class of six-legged arthropods Hemiptera, an order of insects called 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 US 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