DAU /dow/ N. [German FidoNet] German Acronym For Dü

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DAU /dow/ n.

[German FidoNet] German acronym for
Dümmster Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user).
From the engineering-slang GAU for Grösster Anzunehmender
Unfall, worst assumable accident, esp. 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 acidents
such as a core meltdown. See cretin, fool, loser
weasel.

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