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(Or "pumping mud") (Applied Data Research) Crashed orwedged. Usually said of a machine that provides someservice to a network, such as a file server. This Dallasregionalism derives from the East Texas oilfield lament, "Shut'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin' mud". Often used as a query."We are going to reconfigure the network, are you ready tosuck mud?"