mad

Definitions

1. ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Madurese
2. Initialism of mutual assured destruction or mutually assured destruction.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
3. Acronym of Michigan algorithm decoder, a programming language, a variant of ALGOL, developed in 1959 at the University of Michigan.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
4. Acronym of mothers against decapentaplegic.
   abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, uncountable
5. Insane; crazy, mentally deranged
6. Initialism of magnetic anomaly detector.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
7. Angry, annoyed
8. Initialism of mothers against decapentaplegic.
   abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
9. Used litotically to indicate satisfaction or approval
10. Acronym of magnetically-arrested disc, a type of black hole accretion disc).
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
11. Bizarre; incredible
12. Initialism of mandibular advancement device.
    abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“[T]he only bombs anyone dropped—on Hiroshima and Nagasaki—were Uncle Sam's message to non-nuclear Japan. MAD was salvation. MAD was security. MAD was the way of life most of us grew up with, the prevailing logic of uneasy peace. So whatever became of our mad, mad world?”

“But the American government worries that MAD-style deterrence will no longer work⟳. Terrorists, for example, might not care about the threat of destruction.”

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