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See also: dry lab
English
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[edit]dry-lab (third-person singular simple present dry-labs, present participle dry-labbing, simple past and past participle dry-labbed)
- To conduct an experiment in a fraudulent way that produces a desirable result, for example by inventing data.
- What probably happened is that some damn intelligent bureaucrat dry-labbed it.
- 1951, {unattributed}, Illinois Technograph - Volume 67 - Page 11
- "Have you ever had a lab instructor doubt your data, insisting that it is impossible and perhaps implying that he thinks you dry-labbed the whole experiment?"