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verb (scuds, scudding, scudded)

• move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind:we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky three small ships were scudding before a brisk breeze

noun

• 1chiefly literary a formation of vapory clouds driven fast by the wind.
• a mass of windblown spray.
• a driving shower of rain or snow; a gust.
• the action of moving fast in a straight line when driven by the wind:the scud of the clouds before the wind

• 2 (Scud, also Scud missile) a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.