Grunge or gunk

Usage examples of crud.

The burn scars on his legs were still stiff and tender, cracking and opening on the slightest pretext to ooze a clearish crud.

The spokespeople at Loveland say both towns are infested with outlaws and crud and the like.

Few people ever dared approach Major - de Coverley about anything and the only officer foolish enough to pitch one of his horseshoes was stricken the very next day with the worst case of Pianosan crud that Gus or Wes or even Doc Daneeka had ever seen or even heard about.

Rap Sheet from under the noses of the Cruds under cover of bashing a gala event!

Every sweep the Rebels make means we clear the crud and leave the good.

So why were they spending most of their time polishing brightwork, waxing wood, and scraping away imaginary crud and corruption from the decks of passageways and troop compartments?

You want to know how these cruds think--assuming for the sake of argument that they do think--ask Bullethead.

Singing “Reunited” and then “Shake Your Groove Thing,” both Peaches and Herb hits, he searched these cluttered chambers, rating them on a crud scale—cruddy, cruddier, cruddiest—as he sought what might remain of the first twenty thousand dollars that he had given Hokehberry a few weeks ago.

Those damned roach-sized amoeboids or whatever they are that live in this crud are all over my suit and trying to burrow their way through.

But it will rupture a lot of cell membranes, leaving behind all those membranes as a lipid crud.

One tank was deadlined with problems in its main-gun loading mechanism, and Lieutenant Hemmings had come down with the rolling crud, so Birdie Sparrow was in charge of the platoon's three remaining tanks.

One tank was deadlined with problems in its main-gun loading mechanism, and Lieutenant Hemmings had come down with the rolling crud, so Birdie Sparrow was in charge of the platoon’s three remaining tanks.

So she just ran at the square trapdoor opening, her hair, tangled now with green leaves and twigs as well as the crud from her scramble under the garbage truck, streaming out behind her.

She hadn't had her lungs healed just to mess them up again inhaling this sort of crud.

The offshore reefs, already imperiled, could suffocate if the microbic crud thickens.