Definitions for spuds

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spuds spud

Spelling: [spuhd]

IPA: /spʌd/

Spuds 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 42 anagrams from letters in spuds (dpssu).

Definitions for spuds

noun

1. Informal. a potato.
2. a spadelike instrument, especially one with a narrow blade, as for digging up or cutting the roots of weeds.
3. a chisellike tool for removing bark.
4. a pointed leg or stake for staying or supporting dredging or earth-boring machinery.
5. a short pipe, as for connecting a water pipe with a meter.
6. Surgery. an instrument having a dull flattened blade for removing substances or foreign bodies from certain parts of the body, as wax from the ear.

Verb phrases

1. spud in, to set up earth-boring equipment, especially for drilling an oil well.

verb (used with object)

1. to remove with a spud.

Origin of spuds

1400-50; late Middle English spudde short knife

Examples for spuds

Again he caught a glimpse of the boy's arm amid all that spud and foam.

He walked over to spud, lifted the dummy into position in the crook of his arm.

But spud O'Malley must have experienced no such delicacy of feeling.

He folded spud in his arms and followed the two men to the door.

No hostile forms with axe or spud now visit these solitudes.

And now there was only a trace of the brogue in spud's voice.

Then, with the body of spud held tightly, he sprang where Anita had gone.

"Yellah," spud had said, but the description was no longer apt.

"You don't know the Commander, my boy," spud broke in dryly.

"All right then," said spud, and proceeded to undo the string around the box.