"drop like a hot spud" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1877 January 15, The Bendigo Advertiser, Victoria, page 2, column 7:",
          "text": "Gentlemen, if these so-called native industries cannot stand on their own bottom without your being robbed to support them, why come to your senses and let them drop like a hot spud.",
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          "ref": "1961, Tom Mead, Killers of Eden, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 213:",
          "text": "‘When the war finishes, they’ll drop it like a hot spud.’",
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        "Synonym of drop like a hot potato."
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        "(Australia) Synonym of drop like a hot potato."
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        "(Australia) Synonym of drop like a hot potato."
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