dud meaning
Adjective: dud dúd
- Failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive
"he stepped on a dud mine"
- Someone who is unsuccessful
- flop, washout, clunker [N. Amer] - An explosion that fails to occur
- misfire - An event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
"the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned"
- turkey, bomb, flop, clunker [N. Amer]
Derived forms: duds
See also: unloaded
Type of: breakdown, bust, equipment failure, failure, fizzle, flop, loser, no-hoper, nonstarter, unsuccessful person
Encyclopedia: Dud
[American slang]
n. a failure; something that fails to perform as intended.
• The whole idea turned out to be a dud.
• The play was a dud from start to finish.
[Business]
noun [C]
a thing that is useless, especially because it does not work correctly or provide any benefit:
What we thought was a good investment turned out to be a dud.
dud adjective [only before noun]:
a dud cheque (= written by sb who has not enough money in their bank account)
◆ The bank is trying to clear some of its dud loans.
[Defence]
(*) Explosive munition which has not been armed as intended or which has failed to explode after being armed.
See also absolute dud; dwarf dud; flare dud; nuclear dud.
- absolute dud: [Defence] A nuclea ...
- dud probability: [Defence] The expe ...
- dwarf dud: [Defence] A nuclea ...
Examples
More: Next- that's a shame . you'd have avoided some duds
- islam and the duds civilization of the hui nationality
- beat up the usher, get us some free milk duds
- beat up the usher, get us some free milk duds
- these assigned members may be studs or duds
