CRUSTY

crusty

Noun

  1. A tramp or homeless young person with poor cleanliness.
  2. Dried eye mucus.
  3. A member of an urban subculture with roots in punk and grebo, characterized by antiestablishment attitudes and an unkempt appearance.

Adjective

  1. Pertaining to or having a crust, as, for example, in the case of bread.
  2. Short-tempered and gruff but, sometimes, with a harmless or benign inner nature; peevish, surly, harsh.


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