BUGS Synonyms

• (theater) the space over the stage (out of view of the audience) used to store scenery (drop curtains)

• an irritating or obnoxious person

• any of various small animals or insects that are pests; e.g. cockroaches or rats

• social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers

• invertebrate having jointed limbs and a segmented body with an exoskeleton made of chitin

• bug of temperate regions that infests especially beds and feeds on human blood

• any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species

• a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions

• insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings

• a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing

• jutting or overhanging

• be suspended over or hang over

• fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle

• beat with a beetle

• chiefly nocturnal predacious arthropod having a flattened body of 15 to 173 segments each with a pair of legs, the foremost pair being modified as prehensors

• any of numerous chiefly nocturnal insects; some are domestic pests

• a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)

• any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap

• terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

• a cocktail made of creme de menthe and cream (sometimes with creme de cacao)

• small air-breathing arthropod

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• wingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals

• a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect

• any of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants

• wingless insect with mouth parts adapted for biting; mostly parasitic on birds

• migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae

• hardwood from any of various locust trees

• any of various hardwood trees of the family Leguminosae

• the larva of the housefly and blowfly commonly found in decaying organic matter

• any of numerous herbivorous nonpoisonous arthropods having a cylindrical body of 20 to 100 or more segments most with two pairs of legs

• A small flying insect of the family Culicidae, the females of which bite humans and animals and suck blood, leaving an itching bump on the skin, and sometimes carrying diseases like malaria and yellow fever.

• typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae