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Dud meaning
A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. | A failure of any kind. | A failure of any kind.
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Adidas’s new C.E.O., Bjorn Gulden, confirmed this week that 2022 was a dud. The German sportswear giant swung to its first annual loss in 31 years.
Although initially a dud for Disney, it would linger as a cult hit and eventually get the chance to shine again with opposite a returning Bridges.
But human rights groups have said the Pentagon has not been transparent with the data on dud rates and are calling for more clarity.
But it also knows another dud will likely end the Broncos’ playoff hopes, especially considering its backed by an offense that’s been league average, Parker Gabriel reports.
By comparison, Russian cluster weapons, also said to be in use during their invasion of Ukraine, are claimed by Western officials to have a dud rate of 30%.
He was charged on nine counts bordering on the issuance of dud cheques and stealing.
If it was a dud, it would have been more likely to go straight to streaming.
If the Chesapeake striper spawn is a dud again this year, it will be the fifth year in the last eight of disastrously low recruitment to the population.
It is currently not known if the shell is live or a dud.
Russian cluster munitions reportedly have a "dud rate" of 40 per cent, meaning large numbers remain a hazard on the ground, whereas the average is believed to be close to 20 per cent.
The holiday retail season looks to be a dud. The retail industry didn’t hire as usual, and who knows the outlook better than the retail executives themselves?
Thornton has been a complete dud at wideout.
Two monster games and just one dud in four games, what’s not to like?
US leaders have said the country will send a version of the munition that has a reduced “dud rate,” meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode.
U.S. leaders have said the transfer involves a version of the munition that has a reduced "dud rate," meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode.
Volunteers with the Syria Civil Defense assist three people, a child, his uncle and his aunt, who suffered injuries after a dud submunition exploded in front of their house on October 7, in the city of Termanin, Syria.
We’ve never had a dud holiday, we’ve had holidays where things haven’t gone quite to plan but you just adjust, after all you’re on holidays.
We were surprised when Dud walked into the auditorium carrying his accordion and waving to the crowd.
Yet, as the Trump–Russia investigation turned out to be a dud, the establishment crowd had to acknowledge that it was primarily domestic forces driving the populist message, Benz noted.
A masterpiece to some is an over-hyped dud to others.