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bul⋅let⋅proof

[bool-it-proof]
–adjective
1. (of vehicles, glass, clothing, etc.) capable of resisting or absorbing the impact of a bullet.
2. Informal. safe from failure; without errors or shortcomings and beyond criticism: a bulletproof system; a bulletproof budget.
–verb (used with object)
3. to make (something) bulletproof.

Origin:
1855–60; bullet + -proof
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bul·let·proof   (bŏŏl'ĭt-prōōf')   
adj.  
  1. Impenetrable by bullets.

  2. Informal Impervious to assault, damage, or failure; guaranteed: a bulletproof method; bulletproof arguments.

tr.v.   bul·let·proofed, bul·let·proof·ing, bul·let·proofs
To make impenetrable by bullets.
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bulletproof
Used of an algorithm or implementation considered extremely robust; lossage-resistant; capable of correctly recovering from any imaginable exception condition - a rare and valued quality. Synonym armor-plated.
[The Jargon File]

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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