Crossword clues for duds
duds
- Lead balloons
- Fizzled fireworks
- Failed firecrackers
- Spiffy clothes
- Fizzling firecrackers
- They fizzle out
- They fizzle
- They don't go "boom!"
- Non-exploding shells
- Movies with big budgets and no audience
- Movie flops
- Milk ___ (caramel candies)
- Milk ___ (brand of caramel candy)
- Independence Day disappointments
- Hardly smashes
- Fizzling fireworks
- Fireworks that fail
- Firecrackers that fail
- Firecrackers that don't explode
- Dress, informally
- Disappointing fireworks
- Defective fireworks
- Box-office flops
- Bombs that don't go off
- Apparel, informally
- Toggery, informally
- Garb, threads or getup
- Bombs that don't explode
- Edsels, commercially
- They don't go off
- Bombs without bangs
- Turkeys
- Threads
- Outfit
- Clothes, informally
- Things that are put on ... or don't go off
- Getup
- Bombs without bags
- Informal terms for clothing
- Clothing, informally
- Togs
- Lemons
- Failures
- Hipster's raiment
- Flops
- Bombs that bomb
- LA guys wanting English clothes
- Fizzled firecrackers
- Defective firecrackers
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Duds \Duds\, n. pl. [Scot. dud rag, pl. duds clothing of inferior quality.]
Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments. [Colloq.]
Effects, in general.[Slang]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, dudde "cloak, mantle," later in plural, "ragged clothing" (1560s), of uncertain origin.
Wiktionary
n. (context New England British dated English) clothing, especially for work or of rough appearance.
WordNet
Usage examples of "duds".
And I can sit in front of the cinevision every night and watch blinkies like you tell each other what to do about duds like us.
He threw on his duds, that is, he had Mother Truczinski brush his blue bell-bottom trousers with cold coffee, squeezed into his sport shoes, poured himself into his jacket with the anchor buttons, sprinkled the white silk scarf from the Free Port with cologne which had also ripened on the duty-free dungheap of the Free Port, and soon stood there ready to go, stiff and square in his blue visor cap.
There was no need to go into why the personal duds of even a dead hidalgo might give some vaqueros lofty opinions of their position on the spread.