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发信人: yangs (Microsea永不止息), 信区: English
标 题: Slang of the day
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (Sun Jan 5 09:04:11 2003) , 转信
dud
Definition: Something that fails to operate correctly; someone or something th
at is boring or weak.
Example: 1) Jimmy's rocket turned out to be a dud.
2) The meeting was a real dud -- we didn't get anything accomplished.
Etymology: 'Dud' is from World War I slang for a shell that failed to explode.
Over time, the word came to refer to anything that doesn't work very well.
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