DAU
/dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User.
A German acronym for stupidest imaginable user.
From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous consequences.
In popular German, GAU is used only to refer to worst-case nuclear accidents such as a core meltdown.
See cretin,
loser and
weasel.
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