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Recent Examples of guckThe water levels varied with every step, rising from feet to knees to thighs in an instant, then back to shoe-sucking guck.—
Grayson Haver Currin,
Outside Online,
27 Feb. 2022 Rachael’s radical hypothesis is that menstruation is necessary to flush out bacteria and guck that enter women’s bodies along with sperm during intercourse.—
Joanne Engelhardt,
The Mercury News,
18 July 2019 Take a look: The guck that comes out of what has been classified by INSIDER as an epidermoid cyst seems never-ending.—
Samantha Brodsky,
Good Housekeeping,
3 Aug. 2017
Servers suggested mud crab, a variety known for its firmer, savory-sweetness that could handle the richness of the Macau-style curried coconut sauce in which it was baked.
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Bill Addison,
Los Angeles Times,
24 June 2026
Pitman plunged a toilet full of dark liquid and called it mud.
The 29-year-old has arrived at Rolling Stone’s office in distressed cutoff denim shorts and custom boots self-designed to look like she’s been trekking through sludge à la Kate Moss at Glastonbury 2005.
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Larisha Paul,
Rolling Stone,
17 June 2026
In many cases, the blockage comes from sludge in the line, which can sometimes be cleared with a simple flush of water or with a wet/dry vac at the exterior drain outlet.