Dumbass attack

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dumbass attack
/duhm´as @·tak´/
Usage: n.
Etymology: Purdue University
Derivation: Purdue

See Also: adger


dumbass attack: /duhm´as @·tak´/ n.

[Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.g., typing rm -r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger.

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Source: dumbass attack, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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