ok, primarily an adjective meaning not so great, bad, crummy, from English, crud..
(but also) A book by
Lynda Barry about Roberta Rohbeson, a cruddy girl who lives (and tells) her cruddy life in a cruddy town. It just goes to show that
Lynda Barry is funny and should be president, and
the world is evil. Featuring highly are her
homicidal meat-man father; Little Debbie the
Navy knife; the Turtle, an escaped
juvenile mental patient and
drug dealer; and of course, Roberta, who has seen and done far too many things for her age.