spud

IPA: spˈʌd

(informal) A potato.
(informal) A hole in a sock.
(plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
(obsolete) Anything short and thick.
(obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
(slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
(obsolete) A dagger.
A digging fork with three broad prongs.
A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
(film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.

To dig up weeds with a spud.
(drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
(roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
(camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.

Examples of "spud" in Sentences

You're right, peeling a spud is a total waste of time.
Once a week we sneak a spud into the diet The weekly indulging of the potatoes came right at the time of the outage.
Hercules determined that one device, known as a spud can, which stabilizes a retractable leg on the sea floor, had detached.
The island way of life, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and even "" Bud the spud from the bright red mud "" all evoke vibrant images of the island.
As reported earlier, the Company has engineered the next offset location near the NOJ26 and will be announcing a near term spud date sometime in January.
Olga Mauriello, 74, of Naples, Italy, washed off a potato from a sack she'd just purchased and discovered that the spud was actually an active hand grenade.
Most collimators use an expanding or caliber-specific arbor -- I've also heard it called a spud -- that fits snuggly into the bore and onto which the collimator is affixed.
In its "Tell USDA to Keep Potatoes in Schools!" campaign, the National Potato Council calls the spud affordable and "kid pleasing," adding "familiar shapes make lunchtime fun."
Sen. Susan Collins, who hails from Maine's potato country and picked potatoes as a girl, is working to restore some respect for the humble spud, which is on the verge of being virtually banished from the nation's school lunch programs.