• Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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    from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).

    She didn’t want to bring home venereal disease and give it to her daughters?

    Well, that’s good, I guess.

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      Or if you had clicked just one more blue link in that article and checked out the actual definition of “crud,” you’d see that VD is only the long-sense-deprecated seventh definition. Today, it’s mainly used as a synonym for dirt, muck, disease, or other unclean gunk you might encounter out in the wild.

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      (fandom slang) 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