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• n  someone who is unsuccessful
• n  an explosion that fails to occur
• n  an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual
  the meeting was a dud as far as new business was concerned
• s  failing to detonate; especially not charged with an active explosive
  he stepped on a dud mine

• Concern about who is still holding dud paper has gummed up credit markets, with banks refusing to lend to one another for fear that the borrowers may default or may have themselves .
• The past 100 years have seen plenty of dud inventions, foolish decisions and hugely embarrassing mistakes.
• AGE: 45 OCCUPATION: Comedian and host of The Daily Show NUMBER OF PTI COVERS: 0 PREVIOUS APPEARANCES ON THE PTI 100: 1 PRO: He shepherded us through a dud of an Oscarcast .

• flop
• washout
• misfire
• turkey
• bomb

News & Articles

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• Here's Video of the Route 82 'Bridge Bombers' in Action
  Via WEWS , raw video was released yesterday that shows those would-be anarchists trying to blow up the Route 82 bridge last year. An FBI informant sold dud explosives to these guys, and then monitored their actions before swooping in for arrests.
  June 22, 2013 - Cleveland Scene
• Mall fireworks are a dud this year
  Mall fireworks are a dud this year Independence Day fireworks shows sponsored by Westfield Corp. at its malls in Milford, Trumbull and Meriden have fizzled out. All three malls hosted fireworks displays in past years, along with a cookout, live music and exhibits by veterans groups. A Facebook page, "Bring Back the Westfield Milford CT Fireworks," had 126 members Tuesday afternoon. Johnson said ...
  June 18, 2013 - Connecticut Post
• Mall fireworks likely a dud this year
  Mall fireworks likely a dud this year All three malls hosted fireworks displays last year, along with a cookout, live music and exhibits by veterans groups. Messages left for Dan Kiley, general manager of the Westfield Milford mall, Paul Sebina, marketing director for the Trumbull mall and Danielle Consiglio, marketing director for both the Milford and Meriden malls, were not returned Tuesday ...
  June 18, 2013 - Connecticut Post

Quotes

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• Tony Abbott in The Canberra Times
  They've changed the salesman [sic], but they haven't changed the product. Julia Gillard made it absolutely clear that she is committed to the same policies, the same dud policies that Kevin Rudd has been committed to,he said.
• Lee Unkrich in Kansas City Star
  I actually had double pressure because not only was I making a 'Toy Story' sequel, but I was making the next Pixar movie,Unkrich says. "No director here wants to be the one who breaks the record and makes the first dud.
• Chrissy Amphlett in Sydney Morning Herald
  Amphlett said to her husband that he had "married a dud" and offered him the choice to divorce her.