con crud
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See also: concrud
English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From con + crud (“disease”). The former part a shortening of conference or convention. The latter part meaning any disease, from earlier army and student slang for venereal disease (“sexually transmitted disease”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (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.
- 2002 September 19, Julia Jones, “Re: US Dentristy and Optometry”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom[2] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- The root canal will be done again as soon as I've recovered from my Worldcon dose of con crud.
- 2003 September 22, diane, “Re: Gatecon report”, in alt.tv.stargate-sg1[3] (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:
- any con crud? lots of people seem to have gone down with something, some are still stranded in Vancouver too ill to fly home :-((
- 2017 June 10, Lightning Bliss, “Lightning Bliss's Guide to Con Survival”, in YouTube[4]:
- [I]t [the 6-2-1 Rule] is a well-known rule that every con-goer should follow, because it will help you to avoid the dreaded con crud.
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]- freshers' flu (contracted at universities)