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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An identical twin or unrelated person who has a similar appearance to a decent or moral person but who wreaks havoc or does evil.
- noun An imaginary double humorously invoked to explain or excuse uncharacteristic or reprehensible behavior.
- noun A negative or malign counterpart of something considered to be positive or good.
- noun A fraudulent wireless Internet access point used to commit identity theft by recording the data traffic of unwitting users.
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- noun idiomatic A
duplicate orcounterpart of something or someone that acts in acontrary ,nefarious , orinsidious manner. - noun networking A
rogue wireless access point installed near a legitimate one for purposes ofeavesdropping orphishing .
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