con crud

See also: concrud

English

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Etymology

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
  • IPA(key): /kɒn kɹʌd/
  • Rhymes: -ʌd

Noun

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.
    • 1999 September 18, Allen Kitchen, “A proposal for ALFers”, in alt.lifestyle.furry‎ (Usenet), message-ID <A6D29FFCD278DB9B.8E59F475769021D7.8D510A7C0C424992@lp.airnews.net>:
      Much has been said about those who go to furry and SciFi conventions and return with the "Con Crud."
    • 2002 September 19, Julia Jones, “Re: US Dentristy and Optometry”, in rec.arts.sf.fandom‎ (Usenet), message-ID <BmkrtFJ+Zli9Ewvi@jajones.demon.co.uk>:
      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 (Usenet), message-ID <20030922013153387+0100@news.btinternet.com>:
      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:
      [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.

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