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sucking mud adj.

[Applied Data Research] (also `pumping mud') Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine that

provides some service to a network, such as a file server. This

Dallas regionalism 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 to suck

mud?"

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sufficiently small adj.

Syn. suitably

small.

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