Synonyms of the word dud


DUDBOMB - BREAKDOWN - BUST - FAILURE - FIZZLE - FLOP - LOSER - MISFIRE - NONSTARTER - TURKEY - UNLOADED - WASHOUT

dud

  • n. (informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work,…
  • n. (informal) A failure of any kind.
  • n. A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.
  • n. (obsolete) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.
  • n. A loser, an unlucky person.

bomb

  • n. An explosive device used or intended as a weapon.
  • n. (slang) A failure; an unpopular commercial product.
  • n. (Britain, slang) A large amount of money, a fortune.
  • n. (social) Something highly effective or attractive.
  • n. (chemistry) A heavy-walled container designed to permit chemical reactions under high pressure.
  • n. (obsolete) A great booming noise; a hollow sound.
  • n. (slang) A woman’s breast.
  • n. (wrestling) A professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted and then slammed back-first…
  • n. (slang) A recreational drug ground up, wrapped, and swallowed.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To attack using one or more bombs; to bombard.
  • v. (intransitive, slang) To fail dismally.
  • v. (informal) To jump into water in a squatting position, with the arms wrapped around the legs.
  • v. (obsolete) To sound; to boom; to make a humming or buzzing sound.
  • v. (slang) To cover an area in many graffiti tags.
  • v. (informal) To add an excessive amount of chlorine to a pool when it has not been maintained properly.
  • adj. (slang) Great, awesome.

breakdown

  • n. A failure, particularly mechanical; something that has failed.
  • n. A physical collapse or lapse of mental stability.
  • n. Listing, division or categorization in great detail.
  • n. (chemistry) Breaking of chemical bonds within a compound to produce simpler compounds or elements.
  • n. A musical technique, by where the music is stripped down, becoming simpler, and can vary in heaviness…
  • n. (sports) A loss of organization (of the parts of a system).
  • n. (US, dated) A noisy, rapid, shuffling dance engaged in competitively by a number of persons or pairs in…
  • n. (US, dated) Any crude, noisy dance performed by shuffling the feet, usually by one person at a time.
  • n. (US) Any rapid bluegrass dance tune, especially featuring a five-string banjo.
  • n. (music) The percussion break of songs chosen by a DJ for use in hip-hop music.

bust

  • n. A sculptural portrayal of a person's head and shoulders.
  • n. The breasts and upper thorax of a woman.
  • v. To break something.
  • v. (slang) To arrest for a crime.
  • v. (slang) To catch someone in the act of doing something wrong, socially and morally inappropriate, or illegal,…
  • v. (snowboarding) An emphatic synonym of do or get.
  • v. (US, informal) To reduce in rank.
  • v. (poker) To lose all of one's chips.
  • v. (blackjack) To exceed a score of 21.
  • n. (slang) The act of arresting someone for a crime, or raiding a suspected criminal operation.
  • n. (slang) A failed enterprise; a bomb.
  • n. (sports, derogatory) A player who fails to meet expectations.
  • n. (chess, informal) A refutation of an opening, or of previously published analysis.
  • adj. (slang) Without any money, broke.

failure

  • n. State or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, opposite of success.
  • n. An object, person or endeavour in a state of failure or incapable of success.
  • n. Termination of the ability of an item to perform its required function, breakdown.

fizzle

  • v. To sputter or hiss.
  • v. (figuratively) To decay or die off to nothing; to burn out; to end less successfully than previously hoped.
  • n. A spluttering or hissing sound.
  • n. Failure of a nuclear bomb to meet its expected yield during testing.

flop

  • v. To fall heavily due to lack of energy.
  • v. To fail completely, not to be successful at all (about a movie, play, book, song etc.).
  • v. (sports) To pretend to be fouled in sports, such as basketball, hockey (the same as to dive in soccer).
  • v. To strike about with something broad and flat, as a fish with its tail, or a bird with its wings; to rise…
  • v. (poker, transitive) To participate in the flop, thus building one's hand with the first community cards.
  • v. (slang) To stay, sleep or live in a place.
  • n. An incident of a certain type of fall; a plopping down.
  • n. A complete failure, especially in the entertainment industry.
  • n. (poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.
  • n. A ponded package of dung, as in a cow-flop.
  • adv. Right, squarely, flat-out.
  • adv. With a flopping sound.
  • n. (computing) A unit of measure of processor speed, being one floating-point operation per second.

loser

  • n. A person who loses; one who fails to win or thrive.
  • n. Something of poor quality.
  • n. A person who is frequently unsuccessful in life.
  • n. (derogatory) A contemptible or unfashionable person.
  • n. One who or that which loses something, such as extra weight, car keys, etc.

misfire

  • n. An act of misfiring.
  • v. (of a firearm) To fail to discharge properly.
  • v. (of an engine) To fail to ignite in the proper sequence.
  • v. (of a plan) To fail to achieve the anticipated result.

nonstarter

  • n. A project that has no chance of success.
  • n. A horse that does not run in a race for which it has been entered.

turkey

  • n. Either of two species of bird in the genus Meleagris with fan-shaped tails and wattled necks.
  • n. (uncountable) The meat or flesh of this bird eaten as food.
  • n. (colloquial) A failure.
  • n. (slang, usually mildly derogatory) A foolish or inept person.
  • n. (bowling) An act of throwing three strikes in a row.
  • n. (obsolete) The guinea fowl (Numida meleagris).
  • n. (medical slang, derogatory) A patient feigning symptoms; a person faking illness or injury; a malingerer.
  • n. (dated, slang, US, Australia) A large travel bag; a suitcase; a pack carried by a lumberman; a bindle.

unloaded

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of unload.
  • adj. Not loaded.

washout

  • n. An appliance designed to wash something out.
  • n. (biology, medicine) The cleaning of matter from a physiological system using a fluid.
  • n. (meteorology) The action whereby falling rainwater clean particles from the air.
  • n. A channel produced by the erosion of a relatively soft surface by a sudden gush of water; a breach in…
  • n. (informal) A disappointment or total failure; an unsuccessful person.
  • n. A sporting fixture that could not be completed because of rain.
  • n. The aerodynamic effect of a small twist in the shape of an aircraft wing.

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