Etymology

brain-damaged

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brain-damaged · adjective1

From brain + damaged.

brain-damaged · adjective2

Generalization of “Honeywell Brain Damage” (HBD), a notional disease invented to explain certain poor design decisions in Honeywell Multics.

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