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    n. A computer or peripheral device that has been designed and built to military specifications for field equipment (that is, to withstand mechanical shock,... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    tree-killer

    [Sun] n. 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper. This should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper' includes the production of spiffy but content-free documents. Thus, most suits are tree-killers. The negative loading of this term may reflect the epithet `tree-killer' applied by Treebeard the Ent to the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's `Lord of the Rings' trilogy (see also elvish, {elder days}).