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Meaning of creeping crud | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of various diseases.

slang

Examples

“In the heat of the tropics a variety of skin irritationscollectively dubbed thecreeping crud” — gripped with unrelenting tenacity the hides of the tender.”
The clap, syphilis, the blue balls, creeping crud, the sore-nosed dick — we all knew what those were, the very things our priests and ministers and parents and others warned us against […]”
“If he's got some kind of creeping crud, I definitely don't want it.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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