rud

1. obsoleteuncountableredness or blushing
2. obsoleteuncountableruddle or red ochre

present singular third person ruds · participle present rudding · participle past rudded · past rudded

1. intransitiveTo become red; redden.
2. obsoletetransitiveTo make red.

   Her cheekes lyke apples which the sun hath rudded

   1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Epithalamion”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

plural ruds

1. alternativeAlternative form of rudd (“fish”).

plural RUDs

1. abbreviationacronyminitialism(engineering, euphemistic) Synonym of rapid unplanned disassembly: An unexpected explosion or breakup.

   “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

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   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

1. euphemisticengineeringTo produce a RUD.

plural Ruds

1. A surname.