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What is a gremlin?

What is a gremlin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A mythical creature reputed to be mischievously inclined to damage or dismantle machinery.
  2. (by extension) Any mysterious, unknown source of trouble or mischief.
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In the meantime, I'm going to go kill the gremlin that keeps posting on my computer.
I should explain to you that there appears to be a gremlin in the system somewhere in the building.
As he look down upon their rivals from the dizzy heights of pole position, complacency is the only real gremlin to fear.
There is a gremlin which creeps into all these debates and that is that sometimes this flexibility can be used by the transport company to counter the driver's capacity to decide.
What is more risky, a live orchestra playing wrong notes or a gremlin getting into the electronics?
Laptop in hand, he quickly ran the motoring equivalent of an anti-virus scan, identified the software gremlin responsible and had me on my way within the hour.

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