Definition of dud
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: a bomb or missile that fails to explode
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Examples of dud in a Sentence
The seeds must have been duds because the plants never grew.
She put on her new duds for the party.
Recent Examples of dud from the Web
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Veteran IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan predicts dud at TMS How Frenchman Simon Pagenaud has become TMS' darling this weekend Tired of watching cars go in circles?
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But because the Pads have served up so many dud seasons, more was needed.
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Today the bank, CajaSur Banco SA, stands resurrected, swept up by a larger regional lender that has mopped up billions of dollars in dud loans.
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How will critics and Whitney patrons feel about the museum selling duds on the first floor?
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On one hand, the Raiders get a 50-80 catch per year player for a pick that more often than not yields duds.
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The match, which ended after midnight Eastern, closed an enjoyable but long WWE extravaganza that included some stellar matches and very few duds.
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Remember, the Trump Tower meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and the Russian lawyer, okay, the Senate released the documents and in spite of what the media is telling you, a total dud.
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Roughly a quarter of adults under 50 abandoned the show after the lead character, Arie Luyendyk Jr., was largely seen as a dud.
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Origin and Etymology of dud
Middle English dudde
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First Known Use: 1567
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yeardud Synonyms
Synonyms
bomb, bummer, bust, catastrophe, clinker, clunker, debacle (also débâcle), disaster, failure, fiasco, fizzle, flop, frost, lemon, loser, miss, turkey, washout;
Antonyms
blockbuster, hit, smash, success, winner;
Near Antonyms
corker, crackerjack (also crackajack), dandy, jim-dandy, phenomenon;
Related Words
also-ran, disappointment, dog, has-been, near miss;
Definition of dud
: of little or no worth : valueless
- dud checks
First Known Use of dud
1899
DUD Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of dud for English Language Learners
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: something that does not do what it is supposed to do : something that is a complete failure
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duds : clothes
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Definition of dud for English Language Learners
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—used to describe something that fails completely or does not work properly
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