bug up

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Verb

bug up (third-person singular simple present bugs up, present participle bugging up, simple past and past participle bugged up)

1. (intransitive, African-American Vernacular, slang) To deliberately annoy or irk someone; to deliberately start a conflict with someone.
2. (transitive) To install a bug (listening device) on a person, thing or place.