A bedbug is a small insect with a round body and no wings which lives in dirty houses and feeds by biting people and sucking their blood when they are in bed.
bedbug in British English
(ˈbɛdˌbʌɡ)
noun
any of several bloodsucking insects of the heteropterous genus Cimex, esp C. lectularius of temperate regions, having an oval flattened wingless body and infesting dirty houses: family Cimicidae
bedbug in American English
(ˈbɛdˌbʌg)
noun
any of various members of a family (Cimicidae) of wingless, bloodsucking hemipteraninsects, esp. the species (Cimex lectularius) with a broad, flat, reddish-brown body and an unpleasant odor that infests beds, furniture, walls, etc., is active mainly at night, and may transmit a variety of diseases
More idioms containing
bedbug
crazy as a bedbug
Examples of 'bedbug' in a sentence
bedbug
If you think we're going to have a deputy camped out by a charco all weekend long, you're crazy as a bedbug.