bug v.6
(orig. US)1. (US prison) to subject a prisoner to a psychiatric examination; thus bugged adj.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Prison Nurse (1964) 77: I’ll speak to the warden about you and have you ‘bugged,’ feller! | |
| Parole Chief 93: You’re jugged. Go get mugged and bugged [...] Bugged: the psycho doc studies your brain. |
2. to be insane or to act as if one is.
| ‘Trouble Is My Business’ in Spanish Blood (1946) 198: He could bug his way outa raps [...] Totes a gun and acts simple. | |
| Workin’ It 30: It makes you bug a little bit. Like I never bug like that. Stare in one place for a long time. | |
| Check the Technique 314: ‘Everybody was buggin’ when that [i.e. a hit record] came out. It was big right away’. |
3. to confine someone in a psychiatric institution; thus bugged adj.
| Really the Blues 52: [Paresis] finally went to his head and they had to bug him. | |
| et al. DAUL 35/2: Bug, v. 1. To commit to an insane asylum. | |
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 34: [S]he had nothing except the benzedrine which would probably be found and thrown away. There was [...] no way she could get it. In the house a week or more with nothing. I’d crack. I cant stay down that long. They'll bug me. Bug me. O jesus jesus jesus. | |
| Where The Money Was (2004) 229: The first thing that comes into the mind of an inmate on a thing like that [i.e. a psychiatric interview] is that they’re going to try to ‘bug’ him. |
4. to be shocked, appalled.
| Last Exit to Brooklyn 23: When he floated in all the cats in the place jumped and the squares bugged. | |
| Shaft 76: His eyes were bugging and his face was filled with anger. | |
| Campus Sl. Sept. 1: bug – react in shock or disbelief. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Legs 27: The old boy’s eyes bugged when he saw my wad. |
5. (US drugs) to experience hallucinations from drug use.
| Crackhouse 77: This is what we call ‘the bug-out’ – we say ‘he’s bugging’. |
In phrases
1. (US drugs) to experience or cause to experience the effects of smoking marijuana.
 | Duke 3: The first time I took it the other cats bugged me up. There’s always a first time for everything. I got high. I liked it. I felt good. |
2. to make nervous, to confuse, to excite.
| (con. 1948) Flee the Angry Strangers 19: I was frantic. That son-of-a-bitch Stoney bugged me up some more. [Ibid.] 105: I got a real problem and you’re bugging me up with philosophy. | |
| Mad mag. Oct. 10: A nowhere rumble bugged up all the cats who dug the act. | |
| , | | DAS. |
3. to go crazy.
| Among Thieves 237: You couldn’t go around thinking all the time about getting out. You’d just bug up. |