horse blanket
n.— «This tool is planned to replace the current cumbersome manual Horse-blanket, 5 year, “canned” and other ad-hoc reports currently manually developed using normal operating system commercial software.» —“Horse Blanket Report for SATS Users” in U.S. Army Training Support Center Standard Army Training System E-Newsletter For Unit Leaders & Trainers (Fort Eustis, Va.) Spring-Summer, 2002. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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