Usually means: Accumulated dirt or filth.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. crud: Merriam-Webster
  2. crud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. crud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. crud, the crud: Collins English Dictionary
  5. crud: Vocabulary.com
  6. Crud, crud: Wordnik
  7. crud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. CRUD, crud: Wiktionary
  9. crud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. crud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. crud: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Crud, crud: Dictionary.com
  13. crud: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. crud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. CRUD, Crud (disambiguation), Crud (game), Crud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Crud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. crud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. crud: Rhymezone
  19. Crud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. crud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. crud: FreeDictionary.org
  22. crud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. crud: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. crud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. crud-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. crud: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRUD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Crud: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. crud, crud: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. crud (!): English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. the crud: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Crud: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See crudded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Dirt, filth or refuse.
noun:  (uncountable, figuratively, by extension) Something of poor quality.
noun:  (countable) A contemptible person.
noun:  Mixed impurities, especially wear and corrosion products in nuclear reactor coolant.
noun:  (uncountable, skiing, snowboarding) A heavy wet snow on which it is difficult to travel.
noun:  (uncountable, euphemistic) Feces; excrement.
noun:  (uncountable, slang, US, military and students) Venereal disease, or (by extension) any disease.
noun:  (uncountable) A fast-paced game, loosely based on billiards or pool, with many players participating at the same time.
noun:  (Western Pennsylvania) Cottage cheese.
verb:  (transitive) To clog with dirt or debris.
noun:  (databases, programming) Acronym of create, read, update, delete: the basic operations of a database management system.

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