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Meaning of dud

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  dud
      adj 1: failing to detonate; especially not charged with an
             active explosive; "he stepped on a dud mine"
      n 1: someone who is unsuccessful [syn: {flop}, {dud}, {washout}]
      2: an explosion that fails to occur [syn: {misfire}, {dud}]
      3: an event that fails badly or is totally ineffectual; "the
         first experiment was a real turkey"; "the meeting was a dud
         as far as new business was concerned" [syn: {turkey}, {bomb},
         {dud}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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