DAU
/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German acronym for
stupidest imaginable user. From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster
Anzunehmender Unfall (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm
plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences. In popular German,
GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear accidents such as a core
meltdown.
See cretin, loser and weasel.
[Jargon File]
(1994-12-06)
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