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See chinche2. chinch-bug (chinch'bug), n. 1. The popular name of certain fetid American hemipterous insects of the genus Bli us, somewhat resem IMG:content-0296.jpg:[graphic][subsumed] IMG:content-0297.jpg:[graphic] Chinch-bug and Pupa ( Bli us leu copter us). (Vertical lines show natural sizes.) 1 bling the bedbug, very destructive to wheat, maize, etc., in the southern and western United States. Also chinch, chink - bug.-2. The bedbug. chinchelt, a. See chinch1. chinche, chinch a2 (chin'che, -chä), n. [NL. chinche, chinch a, chinga, aga, applied to the skunk; perhaps a native Amer. name, but cf. Sp. Pg. chinche, a bedbug: see chinch2.] A name of the common American skunk, Mephitis mephi tic a. Also cinche.