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- noun A quaalude.
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- noun obsolete
Sound ,noise ,clamor - noun A
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Examples
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If Polanski did anything wrong, and some, I think, would even say he did not, he should be forgiven for a single folly, committed way back in the 'lude' and hot-tub heyday of 1970s Hollywood debauchery.
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The word "lude" appears twice and is left unchanged.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light Bernard Fresenborg
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Or how about "love is like the lions tooth". hehehe ... (ironically that was the name of a book of poetry that was taken away from me by a teacher in grade school, because she thought it had a 'lude'context.
madrigle Diary Entry madrigle 2000
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The sexually lude and elicit behavior the teachers in the New York Post story engaged in is what is inappropriate.
Lisa Nielsen: Political 'BANdates' are not the Answer for Preparing 21st Century Students for Success Lisa Nielsen 2010
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The sexually lude and elicit behavior the teachers in the New York Post story engaged in is what is inappropriate.
Lisa Nielsen: Political 'BANdates' are not the Answer for Preparing 21st Century Students for Success Lisa Nielsen 2010
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There's a certain niche for the ridiculous, lude comedy, and I think the Harold and Kumar movies fit nicely into that niche.
John Cho Says A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas Could Shoot in June | /Film 2010
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Damn! There goes my Pulitzer prize-winning idea of a guitar-playing alcoholic demon who's depressed in his cubicle job, runs a corrupt hedge-fund in his free time, and is addicted to mescaline while popping the occasional 'lude.
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There are far more lude and inappropriate visuals seconds away on the very computer we all are reading this on, that if a fully clothed booth babe is of grave concern, lock out Field and Stream's web site so the aforementioned young girls can't see the naked fish either.
Why I Hate the Booth Babe Story, a Guest Editorial by Holly A. 2010
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BUT then I want Barney Frank to resign because he was caught with all of his boyfriends in a lude act.
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The last time I checked 2D screens out number 3D screens in America by more then a few thousand. lude
All Warner Bros Tentpole Movies Will Be Released in 3D | /Film 2010
AnWulf commented on the word lude
From Middle English lude (“noise, clamor, sound”), from Old English hlȳd (“noise, sound, tumult, disturbance, dissension”), from Proto-Germanic *hlūdijō (“sound”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlewe- (“to hear”).
Cognate with Scots lood, luid (“sound, noise, tone, voice”), Dutch geluid (“sound”), German Laut (“sound”), Swedish ljud (“sound”), Icelandic hljóð (“sound”).
lude (n), (plural luden)
*** Sound, noise, clamor
- Þa hunten wenden æfter mid muchelen heora *lude*. — Layamon's Brut
- Þa *luden* heo iherden of þan Rom-leoden. — Layamon's Brut
November 22, 2011