/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. [Jargon File] (1994-12-06)