Crossword-Solution: DUDS 4 letters, 93 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

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Word Word Type Definition
Duds n. pl. Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Duds n. pl. Effects, in general.

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Faulty explosives 1 answer
Fireworks that fail 1 answer
Fireworks that don't go off 1 answer
Fireworks that could have been great, but weren't 1 answer
Apparel, informally 1 answer
Bombs that bomb 1 answer
Bombs that don't blow 1 answer
Bombs that don't explode 1 answer
Bombs that don't go off 1 answer
Bombs without bags 1 answer
Bombs without bangs 1 answer
Firecrackers that fail 1 answer
Firecrackers that don't explode 1 answer
Fizzled firecrackers 1 answer
Failed fireworks 1 answer
Failed firecrackers 1 answer
Edsels, commercially 1 answer
Clothing (Sl.) 1 answer
Dress, informally 1 answer
Coats, suits, etc. 1 answer
Slangy term for clothes 1 answer
Cover for someone 1 answer
Defective bombs. 1 answer
Defective firecrackers 1 answer
Defective fireworks 1 answer
Movies with big budgets and no audience 1 answer
What you wear, so to speak 1 answer
Toggery, informally 1 answer
Things that are put on ... or don't go off 1 answer
They fizzle out 1 answer
They fizzle 1 answer
They don't go off 1 answer
They don't go "boom!" 1 answer
Suit of clothes 1 answer
Spiffy clothes 1 answer
Sparklers that don't sparkle, e.g. 1 answer
Relative of glad rags. 1 answer
Fizzled fireworks 1 answer
Milk ___ (caramel candies) 1 answer
Many straight-to-DVD movies 1 answer
Lemons 1 answer
Ineffectual bombs 1 answer
Hipster's raiment 1 answer
Hardly smashes 1 answer
Garb, threads or getup 1 answer
Fizzling fireworks 1 answer
Fizzling firecrackers 1 answer
Fizzlers 1 answer
Major disappointments 2 answers
Disappointments 2 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with DUDS (5)

The king says: “Why?” “Because Mary Jane ’ll be in mourning from this out; and first you know the nigger that does up the rooms will get an order to box these duds up and put ’em away; and do you reckon a nigger can run across money and not borrow some of it?” “Your head’s level agin, duke,” says the king; and he comes a-fumbling under the curtain two or three foot from where I was.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
When they had a wedding that night, and Buck and Addy got married, we got ourselves up in the very starchiest of the professor’s duds for the blow-out, and when they danced we jined in and shook a foot up there.
Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
There was a fower-posted bed wi’ auld tapestry; and a braw cabinet of aik, that was fu’ o’ the minister’s divinity books, an’ put there to be out o’ the gate; an’ a wheen duds o’ Janet’s lying here and there about the floor.
The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995
Won't you put on your duds and come and engage your maid yourself?” “Why, Bertram, what's the matter?” “Matter? Holy smoke! Well, I've been to three of those intelligence offices--though why they call them that I can't imagine.
Miss Billy Married Eleanor H. Porter 2008
Then you pack your duds and clear out for Uncle Bob's." Keziah stared at the bride, rose and went to the rear door.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise David Graham Phillips 2006

Quotes with DUDS (3)

Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don't trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they're probably - and this must be said - total duds in bed.
Steve Almond Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
Be a Flea, not a Bull or a Bear. Don't delay, retire anyway. Trading is NOT a four letter word. Buy carefully, sell aggressively. Don't mark duds while drinking. When your plan fails, change it. Don't be slow, don't be greedy. Don't be obtuse with a machine gun pointed at you. There's still time to build wealth and retire well. The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front
James J. Houts The Stock Market Flea: Lessons from the Front
I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go right ahead, never minding.""Some people do," he said, "but they're the duds. They are the ones that win prizes at school, and you never hear of them again. Go on. Be nervous. Be ill. Be sick down the lavatory pan. It's part of your life from now on. You've got to go through with it. Nothing's worth while if you don't fight for it first, if you haven't a pain in your belly beforehand.
Daphne du Maurier
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYM, NYT, S&S, Slate, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 136 times in crossword archives (1944–2025).