Gru

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Initialism of gated recurrent unit. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Main Intelligence Directorate — the Soviet and then the Russian military intelligence agency.

    "Apparently nobody ever expects the GRU, Russian Military Intelligence."

Example

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"Henceforth shalt the mighty leader Gru unleash his spectacular grace through this cursed world."

Etymology

From Russian ГРУ (GRU), through phonetic transliteration of Гла́вное Разве́дывательное Управле́ние (Glávnoje Razvédyvatelʹnoje Upravlénije) and acronymizing.

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