bugged
- adjective
- /bʌɡd/
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intervenido
- I DON'T THINK IT'S A GOOD IDEA TO TALK IN HERE, BECAUSE I THINK IT'S BUGGED.
And it turns out the Marine Corps discovers that those laptops are bugged.
- And it turns out the Marine Corps discovers that those laptops are bugged.
- And while they're doing that, they discover that the apartment was bugged and probably the KGB knows all of that.
- And then they found out that the apartment that he was in was bugged and he had tapes on top of tapes on top of tapes.
Examples
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He was the only child, a boy deep into the thirteenth year of his life whose bugged and skittish eyes inside an oblong face made him look as if he had just discovered introspection and found it alarming.
Fiction book (1997) -
And while they're doing that, they discover that the apartment was bugged and probably the KGB knows all of that.
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And then they found out that the apartment that he was in was bugged and he had tapes on top of tapes on top of tapes.
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We should be careful what we say in this room; I think it's bugged.
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The investigative team discovered that the suspect's home was bugged with listening devices.
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After the meeting, he realized that his office was bugged and someone had been overhearing his conversations.
Synonyms
Having hidden devices to listen to conversations
Antonyms
How Monitored
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bugged comes from bug, which means 'insect', because people imagined a tiny creature hiding and 'listening' in a room. So when a place is bugged, it has a small hidden device that secretly listens to conversations.