con crud

See also: concrud

Englisch

Alternative forms

• concrud

Etymology

From a shortening of conference or convention, and crud (“disease”), originally army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /kɒn kɹʌd/
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ʌd

Nomen

con crud (uncountable)

1. (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.

Synonyms

• blorch

See also

• freshers' flu (contracted at universities)