Meaning of FUD | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Acronym of Fear, uncertainty, and doubt, a marketing strategy involving the spread of worrisome information or rumors about a product.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, derogatory
2. Alternative letter-case form of FUD.
   alt-of, countable, uncountable

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Examples

“The other poets were either hornrimmed intellectual hepcats with wild black hair like⟳ Alvah Goldbook, or delicate pale handsome poets like⟳ Ike O'Shay (in a suit⟳), or out-of-this-world genteel-looking Renaissance Italians like⟳ Francis DaPavia (who looks like⟳ a young priest), or bow-tied wild-haired old anarchist fuds like⟳ Rheinhold Cacoethes, or big fat bespectacled quiet booboos like⟳ Warren Coughlin.”

“The builders of steam engines and other machines also wanted to be known as professional engineers, but the old fuds in ASCE had a very narrow definition of engineering - if you did not build⟳ structures, then you could not be an engineer.”

“Or as some baffled wannabe-trendy Oxbridge fud in the Telegraph put⟳ it, "acting like⟳ Mucous: it is big and it is clever."”

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