Career Limiting Move

(CLM, Sun) 1. An action endangering one's future prospects of getting plum projects and raises and possibly one's job: "His Halloween costume was a parody of his manager. He won the prize for "best CLM"."

2. Denotes extreme severity of a bug, discovered by a customer and obviously missed earlier because of poor testing: "That's a CLM bug!"

(16 Dec 1994)