Katrina crud
n.— «Harold “Buz” Olsen, the city’s community and economic development director, said between 40 and 80 patients a day visit the clinic for a variety of injuries and illnesses, including the nagging respiratory ailment locals have taken to calling “Katrina crud.”» —“Tension mounts between Gulf Coast doctors, free clinics” by Michael Kunzelman in Long Beach, Miss. San Jose Mercury-News (California) Feb. 16, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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