spud

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  1. noun Slang A potato.
  2. noun A sharp spadelike tool used for rooting or digging out weeds.
  3. noun A short section of pipe or a threaded fitting that completes a connection, as between a longer pipe and a nozzle, valve, or meter.
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  • Brains of a spud, and enough makeup trowelled onto his face to open a shop. —  process 10
  • Adam Gibby gets to know the band, the influences, gigs and whether the spud is mightier than the man.
  • A slightly odd-looking spud, the Zero looks to us like the love child of an Alfa Romeo SZ and the original Issigonis Mini, which isn't entirely a bad thing. —  The Register
  • Regularly thirty dollars, the spud was fifteen bucks. —  One Money Dummy Getting Smarter
  • The famous spud will be at the museum until May 10. —  13WHAM: Top Stories
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  1. Middle English spudde, short knife.

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  1. from Middle English spudde, knife; perhaps from Danish spyd, a spear: see spit. Prob. not connected with spade.
  2. from spud, n.
 

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