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[from slang `big wheel' for a powerful person] n. A person who has an active {wheel bit}. "We need to find a wheel...
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pilot error
[Sun from aviation] n. A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently buglike results (compare
UBD
). "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His `sendmail.cf' is hosed."
