dudnoun [ C ]
uk/dʌd/us/dʌd/informalsomething that has no value or that does not work:
Are there any more batteries? This one's a dud.
He's made eleven movies in the last 20 years and not one has been a dud.
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Failures
- a dog's breakfast idiom
- another/the final nail in the coffin idiom
- breakdown
- car crash
- cock-up
- dead duck
- free fall
- hash
- lemon
- lost cause
- lulu
- mess
- mess-up
- might-have-been
- parody
- slush pile
- track record
- train wreck
- turkey
- underachiever
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dudadjective
uk/dʌd/us/dʌd/informalnot working or not having any value:
A customer had tried to pay with a dud cheque (= one for which a bank will not give money).
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Useless and futile
- a mug's game idiom
- adrift
- aimless
- airy-fairy
- be at a loose end idiom
- fool's errand
- for the hell of it idiom
- frivolous
- fruitless
- futile
- motiveless
- negate
- no good idiom
- nugatory
- ornamental
- use
- useless
- vain
- vainly
- what good is ... idiom
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