bugs
Informal slang for crazy, erratic, or mentally unstable — as in someone who's acting unhinged or making no rational sense.
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oh they put an agent in charge of reproducing bugs. huh! this is probably saving the devs so much time, especially if the workflow is set up so an agent logs everything ran a la github.com/simonw/showb...
Also thank you for trying this app out and reporting bugs. It means a lot! I deployed the coming soon page almost exactly four months ago and it's nice to see people give my work a shot.
Monocrops require destroying grasslands, which kills the ecosystem, starting with the bugs and small animals.
bugs are awesome btw but I love them from 1000000 ft away pls
exactly, it's like the whole thing about Bugs Bunny sending up Clark Gable, but now everyone hears "what's up doc?" and knows it's a Bugs Bunny thing. A lot about the Looney Tunes doesn't come across because we aren't…
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Informal slang for crazy, erratic, or mentally unstable — as in someone who's acting unhinged or making no rational sense. Often used in mild exasperation rather than clinical diagnosis. The term is flexible: you can call a person bugs, or describe a situation or idea as bugs. It sits alongside similar terms like nuts, crackers, and bonkers in the long tradition of British and American slang for eccentricity or irrationality.
She laughed it off, but honestly the whole plan sounded completely bugs from the start.
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(slang) Crazy; unstable.
"bugs" means: Crazy; unstable.. This is informal slang, common in casual speech, texting and social media, but not appropriate for school work, applications or professional settings. There is no real cause for concern in itself; it is everyday peer vocabulary. If your child uses it, a light comment about audience and register is usually enough — no need to escalate. Context, more than the word, tells you whether to follow up.
"bugs" means: Crazy; unstable.. Register: informal slang, fine in casual conversation, texting and social media but not in academic essays, business writing or formal speech. A common non-native mistake is to use the word in the wrong register, or to assume one fixed meaning when it is actually polysemous; always check the surrounding register and the audience before producing it yourself. In formal writing, prefer a neutral synonym or a short descriptive phrase, and use this word only when you have heard or read it being used naturally in a comparable context.
“oh they put an agent in charge of reproducing bugs. huh! this is probably saving the devs so much time, especially if the workflow is set up so an agent logs everything ran a la github.com/simonw/showb...”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Also thank you for trying this app out and reporting bugs. It means a lot! I deployed the coming soon page almost exactly four months ago and it's nice to see people give my work a shot.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Monocrops require destroying grasslands, which kills the ecosystem, starting with the bugs and small animals.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“bugs are awesome btw but I love them from 1000000 ft away pls”
— Bluesky· May 2026“exactly, it's like the whole thing about Bugs Bunny sending up Clark Gable, but now everyone hears "what's up doc?" and knows it's a Bugs Bunny thing. A lot about the Looney Tunes doesn't come across because we aren't all watching them in the 1950s.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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