noun · uncountable · rare

con crud

An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single…An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single gathering such as a convention, allowing disease to spread easily among them due to lack of immunity.

/kɒn kɹʌd/

Meaning

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(slang, uncountable)An illness resulting from having people from a wide variety of places at a single gathering such as a convention, allowing disease to spread easily among them due to lack of immunity.

Origin

From con + crud (“disease”). The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The

From con + crud (“disease”). The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The latter part meaning any disease, from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).

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