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creeping crud en · NOUN

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  1. (slang) Any of various diseases.
    • 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 […] 2010, Jack De Yonge, Boom Town Boy: Coming of Age on Alaska's Lost Frontier, page 197:
    • If he's got some kind of creeping crud, I definitely don't want it. 2015, Sylvia Nobel, Forbidden Entry, page 123:
    • 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. 1946, Belleau Wood (Aircraft carrier), "Flight Quarters.": The War Story of the U.S.S. Belleau Wood (page 67)