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      Fortunately, the Coronavirus completely vanished once Biden was elected president. One of the few campaign promises he kept.

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      This was at Dragon Con in September.

      Jen didn’t want to bring home Con Crud to her two daughters and end up introducing Con Crud into the daycare.

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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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          (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

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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.