Usually means: Fast, low-flying cloud movement.
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  1. scud: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Scud, scud, scud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. scud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. scud: Collins English Dictionary
  5. scud: Vocabulary.com
  6. Scud, scud: Wordnik
  7. scud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Scud, scud: Wiktionary
  9. scud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. scud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. scud: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. scud: Dictionary.com
  13. scud (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. SCUD (company), SCUD, Scud (cloud), Scud (comics), Scud (crustacean), Scud (disambiguation), Scud (dog), Scud (filmmaker), Scud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Scud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. scud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. scud: Rhymezone
  18. Scud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. scud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. scud: Free Dictionary
  21. scud: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. scud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. scud: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scud: Legal dictionary

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  1. scud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCUD: Acronym Finder
  2. scud: A Word A Day
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  4. scud: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. scud, scud: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. scud: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
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  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See scudded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (slang, Scotland) Naked.
verb:  (intransitive) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds).
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, nautical) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set.
verb:  (Northumbria) To hit or slap.
verb:  (Northumbria) To speed.
verb:  (Northumbria) To skim flat stones so they skip along the water.
noun:  The act of scudding.
noun:  Clouds or rain driven by the wind.
noun:  (uncountable) A loose formation of small ragged cloud fragments (or fog) not attached to a larger higher cloud layer.
noun:  A gust of wind.
noun:  (Bristol) A scab on a wound.
noun:  A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock.
noun:  Any swimming amphipod.
noun:  A swift runner.
noun:  A form of garden hoe.
noun:  A slap; a sharp stroke.
noun:  (slang, uncountable, Scotland) Pornography.
noun:  (slang, uncountable, Scotland) The drink Irn-Bru.
noun:  A Soviet-developed tactical ballistic missile.

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