Buck Turgidson

Definition

(Noun) In "Dr. Strangelove," a 1964 black comedy movie, the four-star U.S. Air Force General who forgets himself by saying that the bombers launched against the Soviet Union by a renegade brigadier general will get through - when the whole point of the White House War Room meeting was to figure out how to stop those bombers. (Played by George C. Scott.)