dud

About 0.23 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun 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.
2. noun A failure of any kind. A loser; an unlucky person.

   I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.

3. noun A loser; an unlucky person.

   I got stuck with a seatmate who was a conversational dud.

4. noun A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
5. noun Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
6. noun ↑ Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “dud”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
7. noun ↑ Transactions of the Philological Society. (1887). United Kingdom: Society, p. 292
8. adjective Useless; failing; ineffective.

Similar words

misfire flop unloaded washout bomb turkey flawed fault loser miss

Often followed by

dudley and in of was cheques shells shell at

Word family

duds