Front | gadarene \GAD-uh-reen\ |
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Back | adjective Headlong; rash. [After the town of Gadara in a biblical story where the demons in two possessed men asked Jesus to send them into a herd of swine. The demons left the men, went among the swine and all the animals rushed violently over a cliff into water.] "Research from Greenwich Associates has identified a Gadarene rush by Japanese financial institutions into hedge funds." - John Plender; Punting, Not Hedging; Financial Times (London, UK); Sep 27, 2004. |
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