Douglas Hurd *

Douglas Hurd *
Noun. 1. A lump of excrement. Rhyming slang on 'turd'. 1980s
2. A third (class degree). Rhyming slang. 1980s
* Douglas Hurd, Tory government minister during the 1980s under Margaret Thatcher, and later John Major.

English slang and colloquialisms. 2014.

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