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• gunch: /guhnch/ [TMRC] vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
  Implies a threat to {mung}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard...
• poke n.,vt. See peek.
• mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....
• hack up vt. To hack, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with hack on. To `hack up on' implies a quick-and-dirty modification to an existing system....
• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....