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Definition of crud noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

crud

noun

/krʌd/

/krʌd/

[uncountable] (informal)

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any dirty or unpleasant substance
Word Originlate Middle English: variant of curd (the original sense). The earliest modern senses, ‘filth’ and ‘nonsense’ (originally US), date from the 1940s.

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