- 1. Etymology: A character in Scott Adams' [Dilbert] comic strip (n) a clueless boss, esp. one that has been over-promoted and uses a lot of meaningless corporate buzzwords > My pointy-haired boss just told me I need to make a paradigm of strategizing my primary action items, just because I forgot to use the new cover sheet on the TPS reports. Source: ecdict
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