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.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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