| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
DAU
/dow/ n. [German FidoNet] German acronym for Du"mmster Anzunehmender User (stupidest imaginable user). From the engineering-slang GAU for Gro"sster Anzunehmender Unfall, worst assumable accident, esp. 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 acidents such as a core meltdown. See cretin, fool, loser and weasel.| dau daughter |
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