Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A mudflow, especially a slow-moving one.
  • noun A sweet cocktail made with a whiskey-based liqueur blended with cream, a coffee liqueur, and sometimes vodka, served over ice.

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  • noun A geological disaster in which a large amount of mud gathers and moves rapidly down a hill or slope
  • noun a mixed drink consisting of vodka, Kahlua and Bailey's.
  • noun a sexual act performed with feces

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  • noun a landslide of mud

Etymologies

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Simple combination of mud + slide

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Examples

  • The word mudslide made Bo’s sinking head pop into Corey’s mind, and his stomach squirmed, this time with nausea.

    The Good House Tananarive Due 2003

  • But their insurance is not covering this damage because this home went down in a mudslide, which is not what the policy covers.

    CNN Transcript Aug 23, 2007 2007

  • Four dead, one missing in Thai mudslide AT least four people have been killed in a mudslide which swept away houses in a village in northern Thailand, raising the death toll from two months of flooding to 173.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Four dead, one missing in Thai mudslide AT least four people have been killed in a mudslide which swept away houses in a village in northern Thailand, raising the death toll from two months of flooding to 173.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings that remained standing on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings that remained standing on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings that remained standing on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    seMissourian.com Headlines 2008

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings that remained standing on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

  • All that was left after the mudslide were a handful of two-story buildings that remained standing on the fringe of the sludge, which spanned an area the size of four football fields.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2008

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