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mushroom
noun- a person who is given no information UK, 1979
From the US witticism/poster and T-shirt slogan: “I feel like a mushroom: everyone keeps me in the dark and is always feeding me bullshit”. - [During the Falklands war in 1982] The Royal Fleet Auxiliary crew considered themselves “mushrooms”–they were kept in the dark about almost everything. — Guardian, 2 July 1982
- in firefighter usage, a fire that spreads out and downward when reaching a ceiling US
- — American Speech, p. 275, December 1954: “Fire terms: additional words and definitions”
- an innocent bystander killed in crossfire US, 1988
- In city after city, police report a startling rise in shootings of innocents–“mushrooms” in street slang–struck by stray bullets. — New York Times, p. 24 (Section 4), 24 September 1989
- That was a time when crack dealers talked nonchalantly about “mushroom killings,” street slang for bystanders slain [in] crossfires. — Daily News (New York), p. 6, 15 December 1997
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