Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word RUSTY

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Definitions of RUSTY

1. Affected with the fungal plant disease called rust.
2. A gun or in particular an old or worn one.
3. Marked or corroded by rust. [from 9th c.]
4. Of the rust color, reddish or reddish-brown. [from 14th c.]
5. Lacking recent experience, out of practice, especially with respect to a skill or activity. [from 16th c.]
6. (now, chiefly, historical) Of clothing, especially dark clothing: worn, shabby. [from 17th c.]
7. Discolored and rancid; reasty. [from 16th c.]
8. A male given name.

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Examples of Using RUSTY in a Sentence

• The building was purchased by Mike Gillette, who agreed to let local children utilize the modest and rusty playground equipment (which has since been removed) as a makeshift park.
• Weathered, sagging and unpainted houses, boarded-up windows, others covered with plastic, yards full of dismantled rusty cars, their parts scattered about amid all kinds of other junk and trash, are everywhere.
• Chert varies greatly in color, from white to black, but is most often found as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty red.
• The twigs are pale green and covered with rusty down at first, later becoming dark reddish brown, sometimes glaucous, smooth, tough, flexible, and produce an offensive odor when crushed or bruised.
• In the summer, the coat is a grizzled rusty or grayish brown, with a blackish middorsal line, buffy flanks and a white belly.
• obsoletus include: gray rat snake, black chicken snake, black coluber, chicken snake, mountain black snake, mountain pilot snake, pilot, rat snake, rusty black snake, scaly black snake, cow snake, schwartze Schlange, sleepy John, and white-throated racer.
• These illustrations show a somewhat lighter brown bird than the Tahiti Sandpiper, with no white spot behind the eye, a more conspicuous light rusty eye-ring, two white wing-bars and rusty secondary and primary coverts; one of Latham's specimens had yellow legs and feet.
• David Mann, a middle-aged salesman from Los Angeles driving on a business trip in a Plymouth Valiant sedan, encounters a dilapidated old rusty Peterbilt 281 tanker truck driving slowly in the Mojave Desert.
• Other birds derive their red coloration from carotenoids (bright and orange-reds) or phaeomelanins (rusty and brownish-reds).
• The base colour of the wings is a rusty red, and at each wingtip it bears a distinctive, black, blue and yellow eyespot.

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