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gravity finally calling in its debt, collected from an entire hillside at once
means A mass of waterlogged earth, mud, and debris sliding rapidly downhill, often after heavy rain saturates a slope until it gives way.
from A plain compound of 'mud' and 'slide' — both solid old English words. 'Mud' likely traces back to a Germanic root for wet, soft earth (a cousin of words in Low German and Dutch), while 'slide' descends from Old English 'slīdan,' to glide or slip. Joined together, they're a relatively modern coinage that simply says what it does: mud, sliding. The cocktail of the same name borrowed the word later, trading hillside for liqueur.
- speed
- can race downhill faster than a sprinting human
- trigger
- wildfires strip slopes, then rain delivers the slide
- the cocktail
- shares its name with a boozy chocolate drink
- mass
- can carry boulders and entire houses downhill
- warning
- often preceded by cracking trees and shifting ground