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- noun The sudden and violent interruption of the communications link between a player's computer and the host upon which MUD runs; anyone suffering this fate is said to have been dumped. Such is the way that telephones are constructed, this will almost always happen during combat, thus leading either to the death death of the persona concerned (in which case the affected player will moan about it) or, mythically, to the escape of the persona (in which case the opponent would moan about being cheated out of points for the kill). More often than not, both players concerned will moan. See pslam, BT, link dead.
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