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• Dust Bowl
  1. the Dust Bowl a large area of the south-central US, including parts of Kansas and Oklahoma where, in the 1930s, strong winds and lack of rain caused EROSION of the soil (= when the top layer of earth is blown away), so that the land became unsuitable for farming. As a result, many farmers became very poor and had to leave their farms.
• angel dust (noun)
  1. originally in the form of powder or 'dust' a drug used as an anaesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken for its effects as a hallucinogen
• bite the dust (verb)
  1. informal to die, quit, or fail
• brick dust (noun)
  1. dust of pounded or broken bricks
• chalk dust (noun)
  1. dust resulting from writing with a piece of chalk
• cosmic dust (noun)
  1. clouds of particles or gases occurring throughout interstellar space
• diamond dust (noun)
  1. small crystals of ice
• dust bag (noun)
  1. a bag into which dirt is sucked by a vacuum cleaner
• dust bowl (noun)
  1. an area of land that has DUST STORM s and very long periods without rain
• dust bunny (noun)
  1. a small ball of dust that forms in a place that is not cleaned regularly, such as under furniture
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• dust down (phrasal verb)
  1. to wipe dust or dirt off the surface of something
  2. dust yourself down to quickly try something again or continue to do what you were doing after a problem or failure, without getting upset
• dust off (phrasal verb)
  1. to get something ready to use that you have not used for a long time
  2. to wipe dust or dirt off the surface of something
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