mud
IPA: mˈʌd
noun
- A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
- A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
- (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
- (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
- (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
- (gay sex, slang) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
- (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
- (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
- Drilling fluid.
- (slang, originally US) Coffee.
- (slang) Opium.
- (slang) Heroin.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
- (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
- (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.
- (video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games. [(computer games) A text-based online game in which players enter instructions on a command line to jointly engage in role-playing. MUDs are a precursor to the massively multiplayer online game.]
verb
- (transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
- (transitive) To make turbid.
- (intransitive) To go under the mud, as an eel does.
- (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
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Examples of "mud" in Sentences
- The mud stained the car.
- The ground is soggy with mud.
- Pigs wallowed in the hot mud.
- I have seen the dead in the mud.
- The rain reduced the surface to mud.
- He found the footsteps of rakes on the mud.
- He then trudges through the mud to the tree.
- The bottom is sand and mud with abundant shellfish.
- Chinks between the logs were filled with mud or clay.
- The majority of species eat small invertebrates picked out of the mud or soil.