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  1. 1. Portmanteau of "defective" or "defunct", and "afflicted". A derivation from Frank Zappa's 1974 album Apostrophe, on which the Fur Trapper infamously rubs his deflicted eyes. > "Well, the fur-trapper stood there, with his arms outstretched across the > frozen white wasteland, trying to figure out what he was going to do about his deflicted eyes." from Nanook Rubs It by Frank Zappa. Source: ecdict

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