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smasher(2) (iou)



smasher noun2. Criminals' slang. L18.
[from SMASH verb2 + -ER1.]
A person who passes counterfeit money.

Defective virus (medicine)


defective virus
<virology> A virus genetically deficient in replication, but that may nevertheless be replicated when it co-infects a host cell in the presence of a wild type helper virus.

most acute transforming retroviruses are defective, since their acquisition of oncogenes seems to be accompanied by deletion of essential viral genetic information.