(Or "pumping mud") (Applied Data Research) Crashed or wedged. Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network, such as a file server. This Dallas regionalism 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 to suck mud?" [JarGon File] (1994-12-15)