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A culture specific syndrome from Malay involving acute indiscriminate homicidal mania first noted in the 17th century and now seen on psychiatry shelf exams. Used in American vernacular to connote aggressive, uncontrolled behavior.
The man from Southeast Asia ran amok after taking the psychiatry exam, killing three other med students with his sharpened number two pencil.
by petronas March 7, 2006
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