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amu1
plural amus
- abbreviationAbbreviation of atomic mass unit.
- abbreviationclippinginformalvideo gamesClipping of amulet.
How to ID rings and amulets? So far I found 3 ?ID and have quite some rings and amus, but no clue, what they do.
2005 October 20, Pia Kraft, “[crawl] Linux problems & more newbie questions”, in rec.games.roguelike.misc (Usenet)2 more examples
I have just recently got my Barba to 84, and all he has been doing since is gambling for amus. He can carry 1,290,000 Gold at one time, and I have gambled it all away FIVE times on amus, and so far I have a plain blue +2 sorc amu, and quite a few rare skill amus.
2001 March 21, Wayne Youngman, “Best ammy in the game”, in alt.games.diablo2 (Usenet)I was in some sort of trouble -- can't remember exactly what -- but that lead to reading un-id'd scrolls and trying on un-id'd rings and amu. One of the rings was ring of conflict, and amu at least didn't do anything bad so I left it on.
2005 December 21, Moleman, “YASD: that promising samurai who lost his unicorn horn...”, in rec.games.roguelike.nethack (Usenet)Synonyms: ammy
AMU2
plural AMUs
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of atomic mass unit.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of astronaut maneuvering unit.
- abbreviationinitialismInitialism of Acute Medical Unit.
- abbreviationinitialismuncountableInitialism of Aligarh Muslim University.
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amu. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amu
“amu.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/amu. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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