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• kludge 1. /klooj/ n. Incorrect (though regrettably common) spelling of kluge (US).
  These two words have been confused in American usage since the early 1960s, and widely confounded in Great Britain since the end of World War II....
• bot n [common on IRC, MUD and among gamers; from `robot'] 1.
  An IRC or MUD user who is actually a program. On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
• defenestration n. [mythically from a traditional Czech assasination method, via SF fandom] 1.
  Proper karmic retribution for an incorrigible punster....
• KLUGE (kloodj) alt. KLUDGE [from the German kluge, clever] n.
  1. A Rube Goldberg device in hard/software. 2. A clever programming trick used as a stopgap measure, and noted for being more efficient than clear....
• kluge /klooj/ [from the German `klug', clever; poss.
  related to Polish `klucz' (a key, a hint, a main point)] 1....
• dogwash /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca.
  1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first"....
• dogwash: /dog'wosh/ [From a quip in the `urgency' field of a very optional software change request, ca.
  1982. It was something like "Urgency: Wash your dog first"....
• pawn n.,vi. 1. [techspeak] In UNIX parlance, to create a child process from within a process.
  Technically this is a `fork'; the term `spawn' is a bit more general and is used for threads (lightweight processes) as well as traditional heavyweight processes....
• Bathquake, n.: The violent quake that rattles the entire house when the water faucet is turned on to a certain point.
  -- Rich Hall, "Snigle...