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creeping crud

noun

Definitions

  1. Any of various diseases.

    • In the heat of the tropics a variety of skin irritations — collectively dubbed the “creeping crud” — gripped with unrelenting tenacity the hides of the tender.
    • The clap, syphilis, the blue balls, creeping crud, the sore-nosed dick — we all knew what those were, the very things our priests and ministers and parents and others warned us against […]
    • If he's got some kind of creeping crud, I definitely don't want it.

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