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con crud

noun
/kɒn kɹʌd/

Etymology

From con + crud (“disease”). The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The latter part meaning any disease, from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).

  1. derived from crūdan — “to press”
  2. inherited from crud
  3. compounded as con crud — “con + crud”

Definitions

  1. An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single…

    An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single gathering such as a convention, allowing disease to spread easily among them due to lack of immunity.

    • Much has been said about those who go to furry and SciFi conventions and return with the "Con Crud."
    • The root canal will be done again as soon as I've recovered from my Worldcon dose of con crud.
    • any con crud? lots of people seem to have gone down with something, some are still stranded in Vancouver too ill to fly home :-((

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for con crud. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA