Definition of "mud" []

• Wet, sticky, soft earth, as on the banks of a river. (noun)
• Slang Wet plaster, mortar, or cement. (noun)
• Slanderous or defamatory charges or comments: slinging mud at his opponent. (noun)
• To cover or spatter with or as if with mud. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "An 'heah de salvation train is stuck deep in de mud, an' yer know Arkansas mud _hit's mud_; hit ain't b'iled custard; no, it ain't, an 'hit sticks like glue!"
• "Unless a person lives on a farm and tracks in mud from the path straight inside the door, white or any pastel will do just as well as brown or black."
• "Apparently girls whose cars are stuck in mud is an emerging sexual fetish."