wag
n.— «Anthony Cordesman, an Iraq analyst with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the figure of 5,000 insurgents “was never more than a wag and is now clearly ridiculous.”» —“Iraq Insurgency Larger Than Thought” by Jim Krane in Baghdad, Iraq My Way July 8, 2004. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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