Definitions for scuds

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Spelling: [skuhd]

IPA: /skʌd/

Scuds is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in scuds (cdssu).

Definitions for scuds

noun

1. the act of scudding.
2. clouds, spray, or mist driven by the wind; a driving shower or gust of wind.
3. low-drifting clouds appearing beneath a cloud from which precipitation is falling.
4. the hairs or dirt removed by scudding.
5. a surface-to-surface missile, especially one deployed on a mobile launcher.

verb (used with object)

1. to cleanse (a trimmed and roughly depilated skin or hide) of remaining hairs or dirt.

verb (used without object)

1. to run or move quickly or hurriedly.
2. Nautical. to run before a gale with little or no sail set.
3. Archery. (of an arrow) to fly too high and wide of the mark.

Origin of scuds

First recorded in 1525-35, scud is from the Middle Low German word schudden to shake

Examples for scuds

A Manx or Gaelic term for the scud or small clouds that drive with the wind.

After laying to for three hours they were compelled to scud before the wind.

If they were, then we could all run out and purchase a tank, a grenade launcher, a bazooka, a scud missile and a nuclear warhead.

I should be blinded if I did, or blistered by the “scud” of the angular atoms.

“You aim a scud at a city and hope it lands somewhere important,” said one retired U.S. intelligence officer.

The scud is flying all over us now that we are running before the wind.

Syria mated the nerve agent with scud missiles acquired from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.

I never seed a scud on the 'Banks' but 'ut it was allus follered by a fog.

Syria paired the nerve agent with scud missiles acquired from the Soviet Union in the mid-1980s.

And who was now running the scud missiles and bombers that would be deployed to use these chemical weapons?