Bud | |
1. n. (informal) A Budweiser beer. | |
I'd like a Bud, please. | |
2. n. A newly sprouted leaf or blossom that has not yet unfolded. | |
After a long, cold winter, the trees finally began to produce buds. | |
3. n. (figuratively) Something that has begun to develop. | |
breast buds | |
4. n. A small rounded body in the process of splitting from an organism, which may grow into a genetically identical new organism. | |
In this slide, you can see a yeast cell forming buds. | |
5. n. (usually un, slang) Potent cannabis taken from the flowering part of the plant (the bud), or marijuana generally. | |
Hey bro, want to smoke some bud? | |
6. n. A weaned calf in its first year, so called because the horns are then beginning to bud. | |
7. n. (dated, term of endearment) A pretty young girl. | |
8. v. (intransitive) To form buds. | |
The trees are finally starting to bud. | |
9. v. (intransitive) To reproduce by splitting off buds. | |
Yeast reproduces by budding. | |
10. v. (intransitive) To begin to grow, or to issue from a stock in the manner of a bud, as a horn. | |
11. v. (intransitive) To be like a bud in respect to youth and freshness, or growth and promise. | |
a budding virgin | |
12. n. (informal) Buddy, friend. | |
I like to hang out with my buds on Saturday night. | |
13. n. (informal) used to address a male | |