English Dictionary

dud

IPA（発音記号）

/dʌd/

名詞

くだけた表現 廃用

(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile. / (informal) A loser; an unlucky person.

日本語の意味

（口語）正常に作動せず、役に立たなくなった装置や機械、特に爆弾や爆薬のようなもの。 / （口語）運の悪い人、失敗作または負け犬。

The old grenade turned out to be a dud, so the bomb squad breathed a sigh of relief.

その古い手榴弾は不発弾だと判明したので、爆発物処理班はほっとした。

意味（1）

(informal) A device or machine that is useless because it does not work properly or has failed to work, such as a bomb, or explosive projectile.

The only amusing highlight was Gudgeon having managed to exploit U.S. codebreaking efforts to ambush and destroy the submarine I-173, albeit not for the lack of the Mark 14's trying to sabotage the effort, as the torpedo that had hit the sub had refused to detonate; it seemed, however, that the car-crash levels of kinetic energy involved in the dud simply ramming the sub had nonetheless done enough to fatally damage it.

意味（2）

(informal) A loser; an unlucky person.

Now you can't fool me. Tom, I'm not one o' those duds that pay you a thick 'un for an hour in the dark.

意味（3）

A lottery ticket that does not give a payout.

意味（4）

(obsolete, informal) Clothes, now always used in plural form duds.

duds （ plural ）