mud

noun

1. (Internet, abbreviation, acronym, alt-of)Acronym of multi-user dungeon, an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.
2. (countable, uncountable)A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
3. (countable, uncountable)A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
4. (countable, slang, uncountable)Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
5. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.

   “The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.”

6. (countable, slang, uncountable)Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
7. (countable, uncountable)Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.
8. (countable, uncountable)A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
9. (countable, derogatory, ethnic, slang, slur, uncountable)A black person.

   “That includes muds, spics, kikes and niggers.”

   “How could they be so gullible to think peace and love could be achieved with the muds burning down our cities […]”

10. (countable, uncountable)Drilling fluid.
11. (countable, slang, uncountable)Coffee.
12. (countable, slang, uncountable)Opium.

    “Of course, I take a bang or some mud in coffee now and then, and I pick up on gage right smart.”

    “Brown Stuff, or Mud . . . Opium”

13. (countable, slang, uncountable)Heroin.
14. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)Lean.
15. (countable, uncountable)real property in English Land Law
16. (historical)A traditional Dutch unit of dry measure of variable size, frequently about 3 bushels.
17. (historical)A traditional Dutch unit of land area, vaguely reckoned as the amount of land required to sow a mud of seed.
18. (historical)A kind of box traditionally used in the Netherlands for measuring muds.

name

1. Democratic Unity Roundtable, a coalition of opposition political parties in Venezuela.

   “The local branch of the ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) announced its intention to disrupt the MUD rally at a press conference the day before; municipal vehicles were laid on to take the chavistas out there.”

verb

1. (transitive)To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).
2. (transitive)To make turbid.
3. (intransitive)To go under the mud, as an eel does.
4. (Internet, intransitive)To participate in a MUD or multi-user dungeon.

   “Wizards, in general, have a very different experience of mudding than other players. Because of their palpable and extensive extra powers over other players, and because of their special role in MUD society, they are frequently treated differently[…]”