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Oct 16, 2005 19:55

jug·ger·naut (jŭg'ər-nôt')

n.
  1. Something, such as a belief or institution, that elicits blind and destructive devotion or to which people are ruthlessly sacrificed.
  2. An overwhelming, advancing force that crushes or seems to crush everything in its path: “It doesn't assume that people need necessarily remain passive when confronted by what appears to be the juggernaut of history” (Christopher Lehmann-Haupt).
  3. Juggernaut Used as a title for the Hindu deity Krishna.

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