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Nowadays we say this of Ada.
probably a good small language screaming to get out from inside its vast, elephantine bulk.
adger /aj'r/ vt. [UCLA mutant of nadger, poss. from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate student] To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort. E.g., ''He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare dumbass attack.
admin /ad-min'/ n. Short for 'administrator'; very commonly used in speech or on-line to refer to the systems person in charge on a computer. Common constructions on this include sysadmin and site admin (empha-

 
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