scud
verb
[ skʌd ]
• move fast in a straight line because or as if driven by the wind.
• "we lie watching the clouds scudding across the sky"
Similar:
speed,
race,
sail,
streak,
shoot,
sweep,
skim,
whip,
whizz,
whoosh,
buzz,
zoom,
flash,
blast,
career,
hare,
fly,
wing,
kite,
skite,
scurry,
flit,
scutter,
hurry,
hasten,
rush,
belt,
scoot,
scorch,
tear,
zap,
zip,
bomb,
bucket,
shift,
boogie,
hightail,
clip,
cut along,
drag/tear/haul ass,
• slap, beat, or spank.
• "she scudded me across the head"
scud
noun
• a mass of vapoury clouds or spray driven fast by the wind.
• "the water is glassy under a scud of mist"
• a type of long-range surface-to-surface guided missile able to be fired from a mobile launcher.
Origin:
mid 16th century (as a verb): perhaps an alteration of the noun scut1, thus reflecting the sense ‘race like a hare’.
in the scud
• (of a person) naked.
• "they are used to walking straight out of the showers in the scud"
