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   scud

   /skʌd/

   verb

   • 1. move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind: "we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky"
   • 2. slap, beat, or spank: Scottish "she scudded me across the head"

   noun

   • 1. a mass of vapoury clouds or spray driven fast by the wind: literary "the water is glassy under a scud of mist"
   • ▪ a driving shower of rain or snow; a gust: "scuds of rain gave way to sun"
   • ▪ the action of moving fast in a straight line when driven by the wind: "the scud of the clouds before the wind"
   • 2. a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut1, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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