devil's dust

noun

Definitions

  1. Any type of powder or dustlike substance whose use or effect is considered to be harmful…

    Any type of powder or dustlike substance whose use or effect is considered to be harmful or malevolent.

  2. Shoddy produced by a devil (machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for devil's dust. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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