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GUBU
 adj.— «Conor Cruise O’Brien coined the Gubu acronym in 1983 after former Taoiseach Haughey referred to the discovery of serial killer Malcolm MacArthur in the flat of Government Attorney General Patrick Connolly as “grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented.”» —“Detective admits ‘Gubu’ elements in murder probe” IrelandOn-Line Nov. 10, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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