bud
IPA: bˈʌd
noun
- A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded.
- (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop.
- A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism.
- (usually uncountable, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the "bud"), or marijuana generally.
- (US, Canada, Australia, slang, usually in the plural) Cannabis that has been taken from the flowering part of the plant intended to be smoked.
- (US, Canada, slang, uncountable) Marijuana.
- A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud.
- (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl.
- (informal, Canada, US) Buddy, friend.
- (informal, chiefly Canadian) used to address a male
- A male nickname.
- (rare, chiefly Southern US) A male given name from English.
- (informal) A Budweiser beer.
- (pathology) Initialism of benzodiazepine use disorder.
- (informal, telecommunications) Initialism of big ugly dish. [(informal, telecommunications) A C-band satellite dish used by television receive-only (TVRO) systems, ranging from 4 to 16 feet in diameter.]
verb
- (intransitive) To form buds.
- (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds.
- (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn.
- (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise.
- (transitive) To put forth as a bud.
- (transitive) To graft by inserting a bud under the bark of another tree.
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