Usually means: Potato, or to start drilling.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. spud: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spud: Merriam-Webster
  3. spud: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spud: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spud: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spud: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spud, spud: Wordnik
  8. spud: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spud: Wiktionary
  10. spud: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spud: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spud: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spud: Dictionary.com
  14. spud: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spud: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spud (disambiguation), Spud (film), Spud (game), Spud (nickname), Spud (novel), Spud (wrestler), Spud: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spud: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spud: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spud: Rhymezone
  20. spud: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spud: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. spud: FreeDictionary.org
  23. spud: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Spud: The Word Detective
  25. spud: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spud: bizterms.net
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spud: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. spud: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. spud: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPUD: Acronym Finder
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Science (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spud (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spud, spud, spud, spud, spud: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. spud: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Spud, Spud: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Roofing Terms (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See spudded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal) A potato.
noun:  (informal) A hole in a sock.
noun:  (plumbing) A type of short nut (fastener) threaded on both ends.
noun:  (obsolete) Anything short and thick.
noun:  (obsolete, US, dialect) A piece of dough boiled in fat.
noun:  (slang, usually in the plural) A testicle.
noun:  (obsolete) A dagger.
noun:  A digging fork with three broad prongs.
noun:  A tool, similar to a spade, used for digging out weeds etc.
noun:  A barking spud; a long-handled tool for removing bark from logs.
noun:  A movable post through a sleeve in the hull of a work barge to anchor it to the bottom of a body of water.
noun:  (film, television) A short central rod in a lighting fixture, for attachment to the light.
verb:  To dig up weeds with a spud.
verb:  (drilling) To begin drilling an oil well; to drill by moving the drill bit and shaft up and down, or by raising and dropping a bit.
verb:  (roofing) To remove the roofing aggregate and most of the bituminous top coating by scraping and chipping.
verb:  (camping) To set up a recreational vehicle (RV) at a campsite, typically by leveling the RV and connecting it to electric, water, and/or sewer hookups.
noun:  A game for three or more players, involving the gradual elimination of players by throwing and catching a ball.

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