tree-killer
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- A printer.
- A person who wastes paper. This epithet should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper' includes the production of {spiffy} but {content-free} documents. Thus, most {suit}s are tree-killers.
It is likely that both senses derive their flavor from the epithet `tree-killer' applied by Treebeard the Ent to the Orcs in J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. See also {elvish}, {elder days}, and especially {dead-tree version}.
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