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pointy-haired: adj.

  [after the character in the Dilbert comic strip] Describes the extreme form of the property that separates suits and marketroids from hackers. Compare brain-dead; demented; see PHB. Always applied to people, never to ideas. The plural form is often used as a noun. “The pointy-haireds ordered me to use Windows NT, but I set up a Linux server with Samba instead.”

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