RUD

rud Rud RUD rúd rüd English Etymology explosion en acronyms initialisms en rapid unplanned disassembly as an en initialism and an en acronym Pronunciation acronym en /ɹʌd/ en ʌd 1 Noun acronym initialism en engineering euphemism en rapid unplanned disassembly: An en unexpected en explosion or en breakup. en 2015-01-16 Hern Alex This is what a 'rapid unscheduled disassembly' looks like w:The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/16/elon-musk-falcon-9-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released new pictures of its Falcon 9 rocket attempting to land on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean before undergoing what its chief executive, Elon Musk, euphemistically referred to as "RUD" – that’s "Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly". In other words, it blew up. https://web.archive.org/web/20261018111450/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jan/16/elon-musk-falcon-9-rapid-unscheduled-disassembly 18 October 2026 en Eliott C. McLaughlin and Melissa Alonso SpaceX Falcon 9 launches and deploys satellite, days after another rocket crashed in Texas w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/us/spacex-falcon-9-launch/index.html 2020-12-13 “Fuel header tank pressure was low during landing burn, causing touchdown velocity to be high & RUD, but we got all the data we needed!” he said in a tweet. https://web.archive.org/web/20201215015347/https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/13/us/spacex-falcon-9-launch/index.html 15 December 2020 Verb acronym RUDs RUDding RUDded initialism RUDs RUDing RUDed en engineering euphemism To produce a RUD. Usage notes explosion This is also formulated in slightly altered forms, as Rapid Unscheduled/Unexpected/Unplanned/Uncontrolled (self-)Dissassembly, with the "U" varying between forms, and "self" occurring in some variants. Anagrams en dru Urd Dur. DUR dur urd Dru