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dum-dum

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dum-dum  (dmdm)
n. Slang
A stupid person; a dolt.

[Reduplication and alteration of dumb.]
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dum-dum
n (inf)Doofie m (inf)


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Tarzan comes to dance the Dum-Dum with his brothers.
Deep in the jungle, buried far from sight of man, they came upon such another little natural arena as had witnessed the wild ceremony of the Dum-Dum in which the boy's father had taken part long years before.
Tudor was notching his steel-jacketed bullets, or cutting them blunt, so that they would spread on striking--in short, he was making them into the vicious dum-dum prohibited in modern warfare.
 
 
 
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