1. tree-killer abuse> Sun 1. A printer. 2. 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 suits are tree-killers. This term may derive from J. R. R. Tolkiens "Lord of the Rings" http://sf. www. lysator. liu. se/sf_archive/sf-texts/SF_resource_ in which Treebeard the Ent uses it to refer to the orcs master, Saruman of Isengard. Saruman represents, among other things, technology at its most misguided. See also: dead tree. [Jargon File]
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