TREE-KILLER


Meaning of TREE-KILLER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ n. ]

[Sun] 1. A printer. 2. A person who wastes paper. This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper' includes the production of spiffy but content-free documents. Thus, most suit s are tree-killers. The negative loading of this term may reflect the epithet `tree-killer' applied by Treebeard the Ent to the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings" (see also elvish , elder days ).

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.