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noun

• an instance of being ignored or quickly dismissed. Usually hyphenated.

                                                                                                                                                                               
  
  Citation from "Dumped, But Not Down", Psychology Today, Carlin Flora, July 01 2007 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Mar 24 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Mar 24 2010.

verb

• to fail to meet a person or group.

  Last edited on May 03 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

• to ignore a person or group.
  • See more words with the same meaning: to reject, ignore.

  Last edited on May 03 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.

adjective

• extremely horrendous, embarrassing or harsh. (Not slang, coming to English from Medieval Latin.)

  It was brutal when Stanford got knocked out of the Final Four.

  Dude, that was a brutal way to break up with your girlfriend!

  • See more words with the same meaning: bad, poor, sucks, common, generally displeasing.

  Last edited on Jan 23 2012. Submitted by Alli Henry from Palo Alto, CA, USA on Apr 18 1998.

adjective

• non-elegant, in a way that solves a problem using the sheer amount of computer processing available, rather than finding (or inventing) a smarter technique.

  I was tired of reading CRLS, so I wrote a quick-and-dirty brute force algorithm.

  • See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.

  Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

verb - transitive

• to solve a problem in the adjective sense described above.

  I was tired of reading CRLS, so I just brute-forced it.

  Last edited on Nov 04 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 04 2011.

adjective

• "brutal".

  It was bruty when Stanford got knocked out of the Final Four.

  Dude, that was a bruty way to break up with your girlfriend!

  Last edited on Jan 23 2012. Submitted by Alli Henry from Palo Alto, CA, USA on Apr 18 1998.