creeping crud

noun

Any of various diseases.

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Meanings

noun
  1. slangAny of various diseases.

    If he's got some kind of creeping crud, I definitely don't want it.

    2015, Sylvia Nobel, Forbidden Entry, page 123
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    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)

    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
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