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idiot-proof

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1. idiot-proof - Adjective

2. idiot-proof - Verb

Meaning

idiot-proof (comparative more idiot-proof, superlative most idiot-proof)

(informal, humorous) Incapable of being misused even by the most stupid or careless of users.
I tell you, this scheme is idiot-proof! It can't go wrong.

idiot-proof (third-person singular simple present idiot-proofs, present participle idiot-proofing, simple past and past participle idiot-proofed)

To render something idiot-proof.

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Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rick Cook

I like using snapshot cameras because they're idiot-proof. I have bad eyesight, and I'm no good at focusing big cameras. Terry Richardson

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Douglas Adams

‘Maybe it's just as well that we have these idiot-proof tills, because without them the numerically challenged would be all but unemployable and we'd have to support them through a lifetime on the dole.’ Source: Internet

It's totally idiot-proof! Source: Internet

Some things should be idiot-proof, like operating an elevator, using the remote for a TV, making a call on my smartphone, and setting my programmable home thermostat. Source: Internet

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