SUCKING MUD
\sˈʌkɪŋ mˈʌd], \sˈʌkɪŋ mˈʌd], \s_ˈʌ_k_ɪ_ŋ m_ˈʌ_d]\
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(Or "pumping mud") (Applied Data Research) Crashed orwedged. Usually said of a machine that provides someservice to a network, such as a file server. This Dallasregionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query."We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready tosuck mud?"
By Denis Howe
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basidiomycota
- comprises fungi bearing the spores on basidium: Gasteromycetes (puffballs); Tiliomycetes (comprising orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts)); Hymenomycetes (mushrooms; toadstools; agarics; bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom comprises fungi bearing spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics bracket fungi).