1. a small, flat, reddish-brown insect that feeds on human blood and infests beds and furniture

Examples

• The hotel room was infested with bedbugs.
• She woke up with red, itchy bites from bedbugs.
• The exterminator came to treat the bedbug problem.
• Bedbugs are notoriously difficult to eliminate once they establish themselves.
• They had to throw away their mattress because of the bedbugs.
• The apartment building hired professionals to deal with the bedbug infestation.