Veeblefester

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veeblefester
/vee´b@l·fes`tr/
Usage: n.
Etymology: Commodore Business Machines
Derivation: From the Born Loser comix via Commodore; prob.: originally from Mad Magazine's `Veeblefetzer' parodies beginning in #15, 1954
Antonym(s): hacker

See Also: suit, marketroid


veeblefester: /vee´b@l·fes`tr/ n.

[from the Born Loser comix via Commodore; prob.: originally from Mad Magazine's `Veeblefetzer' parodies beginning in #15, 1954] Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management. Antonym of hacker. Compare suit, marketroid.

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Source: veeblefester, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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