Crossword clues for scud
scud
- Patriot's target?
- Missile in 1990s news
- Gust of wind
- Wind-driven spray
- Soviet ballistic missile
- Patriot's target in the Gulf War
- Move quickly, as a cloud
- Missile used in the Gulf War
- Missile used during the first Gulf War
- Missile moniker
- Kind of ballistic missile
- Clouds do this on windy days
- 1991 missile
- Weapon first used in combat in 1973
- Speed ( as cloud formations)
- Skim swiftly
- Skim along swiftly
- Scoot along, like clouds
- Scoot along, as clouds
- Sail along, as clouds
- Saddam streaker
- Run fast (as before a gale)
- Patriot target
- Patriot missile's prey
- Move quickly (as if running before a gale)
- Move fast, as clouds
- Move fast (like a cloud?)
- Move before the wind
- Move along, as clouds
- Missile of the '90s
- Missile first used in the Yom Kippur War
- Missile famously fired in 1991
- Missile — move swiftly and smoothly
- Military Mach 5 flier
- Hurry along (like clouds)
- Gulf missile
- Flier since the '50s
- Emulate certain clouds
- Emulate a low cloud
- Driving shower
- Desert War missile
- Cold War missile type
- Ballistic missile not known for its accuracy
- '90s missile
- ___ missile (Gulf War weapon)
- Mideast missile
- Wind gust
- Gulf war missile
- Gulf war menace
- Desert Storm terror
- Hightail it
- Launcher's launch
- Iran-Iraq war weapon
- Move quickly, as clouds
- Tactical ballistic missile
- Missile with a mobile launcher
- Certain missile
- "Toy Story" dog that shares its name with a missile
- Missile name
- Long-range guided missile
- The act of moving along swiftly (as before a gale)
- Sudden gust
- Go with the gale
- Missile intercepted by a Patriot
- Missile type
- Sail before the wind
- Glide swiftly
- Target of a Patriot
- Run before the wind
- Glide along easily
- Spray driven by the wind
- Skim along, as clouds
- Run before a gale
- Move swiftly
- Flying spray
- Sea spray
- Windy spray
- Skim along easily
- Move quickly about in south of France
- Move over the sea, caught in a lot of foam
- Move along quickly and smoothly
- Drive before the wind
- Desert Storm missile
- Type of missile
- Kind of missile
- Gulf War weapon
- Great Lakes' ___ Canals
- Gulf War projectile
- Run quickly
- Iraqi missile
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scud \Scud\, n.
The act of scudding; a driving along; a rushing with precipitation.
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Loose, vapory clouds driven swiftly by the wind.
Borne on the scud of the sea.
--Longfellow.The scud was flying fast above us, throwing a veil over the moon.
--Sir S. Baker. A slight, sudden shower. [Prov. Eng.]
--Wright.(Zo["o]l.) A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock. [Prov. Eng.]
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(Zo["o]l.) Any swimming amphipod crustacean.
Storm scud. See the Note under Cloud.
Scud \Scud\, v. t.
To pass over quickly. [R.]
--Shenstone.
Scud \Scud\ (sk[u^]d), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scudded; p. pr. & vb. n. Scudding.] [Dan. skyde to shoot, shove, push, akin to skud shot, gunshot, a shoot, young bough, and to E. shoot.
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To move swiftly; especially, to move as if driven forward by something.
The first nautilus that scudded upon the glassy surface of warm primeval oceans.
--I. Taylor.The wind was high; the vast white clouds scudded over the blue heaven.
--Beaconsfield. (Naut.) To be driven swiftly, or to run, before a gale, with little or no sail spread.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"to move quickly," 1530s, of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of Middle English scut "rabbit, rabbit's tail," in reference to its movements (see scut (n.1)), but there are phonetic difficulties. Perhaps rather from a North Sea Germanic source akin to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch schudden "to shake" (see quash). Related: Scudded; scudding. As a noun from c.1600, from the verb. It also was the NATO reporting name for a type of Soviet missile introduced in the 1960s.
Wiktionary
(context slang Scotland English) naked. alt. (context slang Scotland English) naked. n. 1 The act of scudding. 2 Clouds or rain driven by the wind. 3 A gust of wind. 4 (context Bristol English) A scab on a wound. 5 A small flight of larks, or other birds, less than a flock. 6 Any swimming amphipod crustacean. 7 (context slang Scotland English) pornography. 8 (context slang Scotland English) Irn-Bru. v
1 (context intransitive English) To race along swiftly (especially used of clouds). 2 (context ambitransitive nautical English) To run, or be driven, before a high wind with no sails set. 3 (context Northumbria English) To hit. 4 (context Northumbria English) To speed. 5 (context Northumbria English) To skim.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Scud or SCUD may also refer to:
- Scud (crustacean), a shrimplike aquatic animal
- Scud (dog), a character in the animation Toy Story
- Scud FM, nickname of BBC Radio 4's continuous 1991 Gulf War news service
- Scud Mountain Boys, an American country music band
- Septicemic cutaneous ulcerative disease, a disease found in turtles
- Socle pour le changement, l'unité et la démocratie, a Chadian rebel group
Pannus, or scud clouds, is a type of fractus cloud at low height above ground, detached, and of irregular form found beneath nimbostratus or cumulonimbus clouds. These clouds are often ragged or wispy in appearance. When caught in the outflow ( downdraft) beneath a thunderstorm, scud clouds will often move faster than the storm clouds themselves. When in an inflow ( updraft) area, scud clouds tend to rise and may exhibit lateral movement ranging from very little to substantial.
Scud is a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was exported widely to both Second and Third World countries. The term comes from the NATO reporting name "Scud" which was attached to the missile by Western intelligence agencies. The Russian names for the missile are the R-11 (the first version), R-17 (later R-300) Elbrus (later developments). The name Scud has been widely used to refer to these missiles and the wide variety of derivative variants developed in other countries based on the Soviet design.
Scud (born 1967, Guangzhou), is the working name of mainland China-born and raised Hong Kong Chinese film producer, screenwriter and now film director, Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung . He says that he chose the name 'Scud' to match his Chinese name, which translates in English as 'Scudding Clouds'. He was born in Guangzhou (Canton) in mainland China on March 20, 1967, during the country's Cultural Revolution. His films explore themes usually deemed too controversial for Hong Kong cinema, including same-sex relationships and drug-taking, and include many nude scenes of Chinese young men, whose pubic hair and genitalia are fully exposed on camera. His film-making style eschews cynicism or gritty realism, and embraces an acceptance of the life choices made by his characters, rather than a search for 'solutions'.
Usage examples of "scud".
STILL-SGI isszandcaret so- m caret zandz caret caret caret But backslash Tattered clouds were scudding across the face of the moon comwhen Seregil and Alec set out for the Cockerel.
WMD, no small concern in a nation that had once amassed a considerable arsenal of chemical weapons, biological agents, and Scud missiles, and was not now a model of governmental organization.
Masonry and glass gleamed higher than high, up into a blueness where a few bits of cloud scudded along on the breeze that gave me its cool kiss.
But, cleared her eyes of that ensanguined scud Distorting her true features, to be shown Benignly luminous, one who bears Humanity at breast, and she might learn How surely the excelling generous find Renouncement is possession.
By an expiring blue-shot beam of moonlight, Farina beheld a vast realm of gloom filling the hollow of the West, and the moon was soon extinguished behind sluggish scraps of iron scud detached from the swinging bulk of ruin, as heavily it ground on the atmosphere in the first thunder-launch of motion.
Crofton and Jolles scudded toward the stairway that offered departure before the police arrived.
I pointed to the west where the mountainous shore-line, not five miles away yet barely visible through the driving rain and low scudding cloud, ran in an almost sheer drop from the head of Loch Lairg to the entrance to Torbay Sound.
They scudded across the sky so rapidly Miss Mahan got dizzy looking at them.
A scarcity of houses, the hills crowding in, all smoothly sheeted rumps and shoulders and domes, her marijuana-stoked thoughts turned whimsical: they seemed to be scudding nervily through a dense stalled parade of white elephants.
There also were three bottles of pisco, and as Switters looked from the booze to Inti and back again, a dark puff of worry scudded his inner sky.
All the time the reflection of the water was playing on the raftered eaves, and the sun streamed in and the cows grazed on the top of the hill opposite, and the clouds scudded across the sky in full panorama.
The skipper had managed to get a star reading the night before so the ship was now under reefed sails, scudding southward over the tossing sea.
Cloud-shadow and scudding sun-burst Were swift on the floor of the sea, And a mad wind was romping its worst, But what was their magic to me?
Moderately buffeted, half-hidden by the shreds of thicker gas scudding across the lamplit night, Fassin had made his way up and out across the sheen of rooftops.
Gavril could see his winged shadow, darker than a cloud, scudding over the snowy fields and hills below.