Usually means: Fast, low-flying cloud movement.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. scud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. scud: Merriam-Webster
  3. Scud, scud, scud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. scud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. scud: Collins English Dictionary
  6. scud: Vocabulary.com
  7. Scud, scud: Wordnik
  8. scud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Scud, scud: Wiktionary
  10. scud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. scud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. scud: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. scud: Dictionary.com
  14. scud (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. SCUD (company), SCUD, Scud (cloud), Scud (comics), Scud (crustacean), Scud (disambiguation), Scud (dog), Scud (filmmaker), Scud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Scud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. scud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. scud: Rhymezone
  19. Scud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. scud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. scud: FreeDictionary.org
  22. scud: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. scud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. scud: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. scud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. SCUD: Acronym Finder
  2. scud: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  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)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  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:  (ambitransitive, 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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