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rud

noun, verb — 6 senses

RUD

nounalso spelled RUD

Etymology (explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym

1

Abbreviation, Acronym, Initialism (engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup.

  • Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up.2015 January 16, Alex Hern, “This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like”, in The Guardian:
  • “Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet.2020 December 13, Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso, “SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas”, in CNN:

RUD

verb

Etymology (explosion): Abbreviation of rapid unplanned disassembly as an initialism and an acronym

1

Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences Euphemistic To produce a RUD.

rud

noun

/ɹʌd/

Etymology From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).

1

redness; blush

2

ruddle; red ochre

Derived terms
ruddock

rud

verb

Etymology From Middle English rudden, ruden, from Old English rudian (“to be ruddy”) (compare rudu (“redness”)), from Proto-Germanic *rudāną, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rudʰéh₁ti, from *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”); cognate with Old Cornish rud and Old Irish rúad). (Compare red).

1

To become red; redden.

2

Obsolete To make red.

  • Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Epithalamion”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:
Related terms
ruddy

Entry derived from the Wiktionary, under licence CC BY-SA 4.0 — authors: page histories for RUD and rud.