Definition of "mud"

mud¹

/mʌd/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural muds
1. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
2. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
3. (construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
4. (figuratively) Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
5. (slang) Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
6. (gay sex, slang) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
7. (geology) A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
8. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A black person.
  Quotations
  That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.
  2013, Bill Pezza, Homegrown
  How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]
  2015, Christian Picciolini, Romantic Violence: Memoirs of an American Skinhead
9. Drilling fluid.
10. (slang, originally US) Coffee.
11. (slang) Opium.
  Quotations
  Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.
  1951 December 20, William S. Burroughs, “To Allen Ginsberg”, in Oliver Harris, editor, The Letters of William S. Burroughs, 1945–1959, New York: Penguin, published 1993, page 98
  Brown Stuff, or Mud . . Opium]
  , William S. Burroughs, edited by Allen Ginsberg, Junky, Penguin Books, Glossary, page 153
12. (slang) Heroin.
verb
third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded
1. (transitive) To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
2. (transitive) To make turbid.
3. (intransitive) To go under the mud, as an eel does.

mud²

/mʌd/

noun
plural muds or mudden
1. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
2. (historical) A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
3. (historical) A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.

mud³

/mʌd/

verb
third-person singular simple present muds, present participle mudding, simple past and past participle mudded
1. (intransitive, Internet) To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.
  Quotations
  Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently […]
  1997, Philip Agre, Douglas Schuler, Reinventing technology, rediscovering community, page 153

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