DUD meaning: Failure to perform as expected

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word dud:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

dud: Merriam-Webster
dud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
dud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
dud: Collins English Dictionary
dud: Vocabulary.com
Dud, dud: Wordnik
dud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
dud: Wiktionary
dud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
dud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
dud: Infoplease Dictionary
dud: Dictionary.com
dud: Online Etymology Dictionary
dud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Dud (disambiguation), Dud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
dud: Rhymezone
dud: FreeDictionary.org
dud: Mnemonic Dictionary
Dud: The Word Detective
dud: TheFreeDictionary.com
dud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

dud: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

baby names list (No longer online)
DUD: Acronym Finder
DUD: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

dud, dud, dud, dud, dud: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Explosives (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.
▸ noun:  (informal) A failure of any kind.
▸ noun:  (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.
▸ noun:  A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
▸ adjective:  Useless; failing; ineffective.

Similar:

flop, washout, bomb, misfire, turkey, unloaded, damp squib, dudgen, dunny, dingus, more...

Opposite:

hit, success

Types:

firecracker, Roman candle, M-80, M-100, M-1000, M-5000, M-10000, more...

Phrases:

dud dudley, absolute dud, Yury Dud, The Dud Avocado, ford dud, more...

Adjectives:

complete, such, real, total, old, big, little, absolute, single, only, occasional

Colors:

gray, brown, olive, beige, khaki, more...