intransitive verb

• see go ape shit.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Jun 09 2008  (Edit definition)

noun

• "boyfriend."

  Is he your new BF?

  More words meaning: abbreviations (list of)
  More words meaning: boyfriend, girlfriend, boo, significant other

  by Kimmie, Canada, Feb 04 2000  (Edit definition)

• a "bitch fit."

  What out before she has a BF.

  More words meaning: abbreviations (list of)
  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Dec 27 2004  (Edit definition)

verb

• to phone or page excessively; to fill up the capacity of some electronic answering service (voice mail, answering machine, one's pager, etc.)

  My crazy ex keeps blowing up my cellphone.

  More words meaning: telephone, phone

  by Greg K., Tucson, AZ, USA, Jun 10 1999  (Edit definition)

• a feeling of ecstasy brought about by the consumption of the drug MDMA (also known as "ecstasy", "X", "E", etc.)

  This is great X - I've been blowing up all night.

  More words meaning: under the influence of MDMA (ecstasy)

  by Anonymous, Jan 19 2000  (Edit definition)

• to significantly increase in one's socio-economic status.

  I'm go blow up when my album is released.

  More words meaning: to make money

  by Ugunda G., Akron, OH, USA, Oct 05 2001  (Edit definition)

• to become extremely angry.

  He totally blew up at me after I wrecked his car.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Jan 04 2003  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• to joke; KID.

  Ya buggin'.

  More words meaning: to joke, kid, or jest

  by Nelli M., Jul 27 2005  (Edit definition)

• to be extremely excited.

  I'm buggin'!

  More words meaning: excited, energetic

  by Wendy R., Dallas, TX 75231, USA, May 10 2007  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; FREAK OUT.

  I was bugging after she got home.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

noun

• An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, especially one that causes it to malfunction.

  There's a bug in the editor: it writes things out backwards.

  The system crashed because of a hardware bug.

  Fred is a winner, but he has a few bugs. (i.e. Fred is a good guy, but he has a few personality problems).

  More words meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate
  More words meaning: broken
  More words meaning: computer slang

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

transitive verb

• to pester or annoy.

  Why do you keep bugging me? Go away.

  More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008  (Edit definition)

origin

• Regarding the "unwanted and unintended property" meaning:
  
  Admiral Grace Hopper (an early computing pioneer better known for inventing the programming language COBOL) liked to tell a story in which a technician solved a malfunction in the Harvard Mark II machine by pulling an actual insect out from between the contacts of one of its relays, and she subsequently promulgated "bug" in its hackish sense as a joke about the incident (though, as she was careful to admit, she was not there when it happened). For many years the logbook associated with the incident and the actual bug in question (a moth) sat in a display case at the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC). The entire story, with a picture of the logbook and the moth taped into it, is recorded in the Annals of the History of Computing, Vol. 3, No. 3 (July 1981), pp. 285--286. The text of the log entry (from September 9, 1947), reads, "1545 Relay #70 Panel F (moth) in relay. First actual case of bug being found."
  
  This wording establishes that the term was already in use at the time in its current specific sense, and Hopper herself reports that the term "bug" was regularly applied to problems in radar electronics during WWII.
  
  Indeed, the use of "bug" to mean an industrial defect was already established in Thomas Edison's time, and a more specific and rather modern use can be found in an electrical handbook from 1896 (Hawkin's New Catechism of Electricity, Theo. Audel & Co.) which says, "The term "bug" is used to a limited extent to designate any fault or trouble in the connections or working of electric apparatus."
  
  It further notes that the term is said to have originated in quadruplex telegraphy and have been transferred to all electric apparatus.
  
  The latter observation may explain a common folk etymology of the term: that it came from telephone company usage, in which bugs in a telephone cable were blamed for noisy lines.
  
  Historians of the field inform us that the term was regularly used in the early days of telegraphy to refer to a variety of semi-automatic telegraphy keyers that would send a string of dots if you held them down. In fact, the Vibroplex keyers (which were among the most common of this type) even had a graphic of a beetle on them (and still do)! While the ability to send repeated dots automatically was very useful for professional morse code operators, these were also significantly trickier to use than the older manual keyers, and it could take some practice to ensure one didn't introduce extraneous dots into the code by holding the key down a fraction too long. In the hands of an inexperienced operator, a Vibroplex "bug" on the line could mean that a lot of garbled Morse would soon be coming your way.
  
  Further, the term has long been used among radio technicians to describe a device that converts electromagnetic field variations into acoustic signals. It is used to trace radio interference and look for dangerous radio emissions. Radio community usage derives from the roach-like shape of the first versions used by 19th century physicists. The first versions consisted of a coil of wire (roach body), with the two wire ends sticking out and bent back to nearly touch forming a spark gap (roach antennae). The bug is to the radio technician what the stethoscope is to the stereotypical medical doctor. This sense is almost certainly ancestral to modern use of "bug" meaning a covert monitoring device, but may also have contributed to the use of the term for the effects of radio interference itself.
  
  Actually, use of "bug" in the general sense of a disruptive event goes back to Shakespeare! (Henry VI, part III - Act V, Scene II: King Edward:
  
  "So, lie thou there. Die thou; and die our fear; For Warwick was a bug that fear'd us all."
  
  In the first edition of Samuel Johnson's dictionary one meaning of "bug" is "A frightful object; a walking spectre." This is traced to "bugbear", a Welsh term for a variety of mythological monster which (to complete the circle) has recently been reintroduced into the popular lexicon through fantasy role-playing games. In any case, in jargon the word almost never refers to insects.
  
  A careful discussion of the etymological issues can be found in a paper by Fred R. Shapiro, 1987, "Entomology of the Computer Bug: History and Folklore", American Speech 62(4):376-378.
  
  As of late 1990, the NSWC still had the bug, but had unsuccessfully tried to get the Smithsonian to accept it. The present curator of their History of American Technology Museum didn't know this and agreed that it would make a worthwhile exhibit. It was moved to the Smithsonian in mid-1991, but due to space and money constraints was not actually exhibited for years afterwards.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009  (Edit definition)

verb

• To get high.

  I can't wait to bug out with Jayme tonight!

  More words meaning: to do drugs
  More words meaning: to smoke marijuana

  by Jackie R., Glen Gardner, NJ, USA, Feb 19 1999  (Edit definition)

notes

• See bug.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

noun

• a bad tantrum. Also conniption fit. One "has" a conniption or conniption fit.

  He had a conniption over the dent in the car.

  He had a conniption fit over the dent in the car.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Melissa C., Phoenix, AZ, USA, Aug 28 2002  (Edit definition)

adverb

• very; really; extremely.

  That is freak expensive.

  More words meaning: very, extremely, completely, in a grand way

  by Jon Lansel, Orlando, FL, USA, Dec 10 2002  (Edit definition)

noun

• a person who is strange or different. A term of derision, typically used to dismiss someone outside of one's social clique. Also used as a playful tease.

  He is such a freak!

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange person

  by Kesha Edwards, Charlotte, NC, USA, Jun 04 1997  (Edit definition)

• a person who is sexually adventurous. Can be either complementary or derogatory, depending on context.

  She's a freak, man. She had sex with the whole football team.

  More words meaning: sexually adventurous

  by Shannon, Virginia, USA, Feb 02 1999  (Edit definition)

• a person with odd sexual proclivities.

  That boy is a freak.

  More words meaning: crazy, insane, weird, strange person
  More words meaning: sexually adventurous

  by Diane J., Jan 13 2005  (Edit definition)

verb

• to dance in a provocative or sexual manner. Usually involves gyrating bodies against each other. Also get (one's) freak on.

  I was freaking this guy at the dance last night.

  More words meaning: sexuality (related to)
  More words meaning: to dance

  by christina m., Lompoc, CA, USA, Feb 15 1999  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure. See also freak out.

  She freaked when she found out.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Anonymous, Jul 05 2007  (Edit definition)

notes

• Also used as a replacement word for fuck.

  More words meaning: censored replacements for offensive terms (list of)

  by Scott H., Garden Grove, CA, USA, Sep 03 2006  (Edit definition)

verb

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure. Taken from Merriam Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

interjection

• derogatory command that means roughly "Go get fucked!"

  Go get bent!

  I think he needs to get bent.

  More words meaning: insults involving genitalia (list of)
  More words meaning: miscellaneous insults (list of)

  by Jeff O., Crivitz, WI, USA, Dec 23 1997  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• to become angry. Short for "get bent out of shape."

  She got bent when she saw what was really going on!

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by P. F., New Orleans, LA, USA, Mar 15 2000  (Edit definition)

• to be taken advantage of, be in a bad situation, or fail miserably. Used in the past tense.

  Speaker: How did you do on that exam?
  
  Response: I got bent.

  More words meaning: to take advantage of, cheat, trick

  by Jon, Canada, Oct 29 2002  (Edit definition)

verb

• to become angry at and yell (that is, to "bitch") at someone.

  I was sitting there in class, and Mrs. Ashe got the bitch on me because I didn't turn in my homework.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out
  More words meaning: to yell

  by Daniel LeBlanc, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, Mar 04 1998  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• become enraged; FREAK OUT.

  She went ape shit when she found out her boyfriend had cheated on her.

  If he finds out, he'll go ape shit.

  I scratched his Wipers LP, and he went ape shit!

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Setebos, Berkeley, CA, USA, Apr 21 1998  (Edit definition)

• to go crazy; FREAK OUT.

  He went ape shit when his girlfriend dumped him.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Ashley, AK, USA, Jul 06 1998  (Edit definition)

verb

• to become enraged, lose one's temper; FREAK OUT.

  When she found out he lied, she went ballistic.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Patrick, Austin, TX, USA, Jun 18 1998  (Edit definition)

verb

• to go insane. See also bananas.

  When I told him that his girlfriend left town, he went bananas.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001  (Edit definition)

verb

• to become extremely angry or upset; FREAK OUT.

  He went all batshit on her.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Katie G., St Louis, MO, USA, Mar 15 2002  (Edit definition)

verb

• to go crazy.

  I'm about to go bejesus in here!

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Nate B., Cleveland, OH, USA, Aug 05 2002  (Edit definition)

verb

• to react with extreme or irrational distress or composure; FREAK OUT.

  I told her I was bisexual and she went bitchcakes!

  I went bitchcakes on the clerk at the pharmacy because she couldn't find my prescription.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Madyson Baran, Bethesda, MD, USA, Oct 24 1997  (Edit definition)

verb

• to go crazy.

  He just went bonkers.

  More words meaning: to become angry, go crazy, freak out

  by Jeree, May 06 1998  (Edit definition)