con crud
Meaning
Noun
- 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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Origin
- From con + crud. The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The latter part meaning any disease, from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease.
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