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• gun: [ITS: from the `:GUN' command] vt. To forcibly terminate a program or job (computer, not career).
  Some idiot left a background process running soaking up half the cycles, so I gunned it....
• FOD /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people.
  From MUDs where the wizard command `FOD <player&g...
• FOD: /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people.
  From {MUD}s where the wizard command `FOD &l...
• blammo v. [Oxford Brookes University and alumni, UK] To forcibly remove someone from any interactive system, especially talker systems.
  The operators, who may remain hidden, may `blammo' a user who is misbehaving....
• bum 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• bum: 1. vt. To make highly efficient, either in time or space, often at the expense of clarity.
  I managed to bum three more instructions out of that code....
• cycle 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper described himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• cycle: 1. n. The basic unit of computation. What every hacker wants more of (noted hacker Bill Gosper describes himself as a "cycle junkie").
  One can describe an instruction as taking so many `clock cycles'....
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....