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/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A Germanacronym for stupidest imaginable user. From theengineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall(worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farmplant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. Inpopular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-casenuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.See cretin, loser and weasel.
By Denis Howe
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flame-bearer
- One who bears flame or light; name given to members a genus humming birds, from their being furnished with tuft flery crimson-colored feathers round neck like gorget. little flame-bearer inhabits inner side extinct volcano Chiriqui, in Veragua, about 9000 feet above the level of sea. It measures only 1/2 inches length. There are various other species, all tropical American.