kiboze v.
[Usenet] To grep the Usenet news for a string,
especially with the intention of posting a follow-up. This
activity was popularised by Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2).
[Usenet] To grep the Usenet news for a string,
especially with the intention of posting a follow-up. This
activity was popularised by Kibo (see KIBO, sense 2).
Related:
- kiboze: [USENET] v. To {grep} the USENET news for a string,
especially with the intention of posting a follow-up... - kibozo /ki:-boh'zoh/ n.
[Usenet] One who
kibozes but is not Kibo (see KIBO,
sense 2)... - despew /d*-spyoo'/ v.
[Usenet] To automatically generate
a large amount of garbage to the net,
esp. from an automated posting program gone wild... - The Usenet news is
out of... - despew: /d*-spyoo'/ [USENET] v. To automatically generate a
large amount of garbage to the net,
esp. from an automated posting program gone wild... - followup n.
[common] On Usenet, a posting
generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a
reply,
which goes by email rather than being broadcast). ... - followup: n. On USENET, a {posting} generated in response to
another posting (as opposed to a {reply},
which goes by email rather than being broadcast)... - flood v.
[common; IRC] To dump large amounts of text
onto an IRC channel.
This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting... - rot13 /rot ther'teen/ n.,v.
[Usenet: from `rotate
alphabet 13 places'] The simple Caesar-cypher encryption that
replaces each English letter with the one 13 places forward or back
along the alphabet,
so that "The butler did it!" becomes "Gur ohgyre...
From the same category:
- garply /gar'plee/ n.
[Stanford] Another metasyntactic
variable (see foo);
once popular among SAIL hackers... - tanked adj.
Same as down, used primarily by Unix
hackers.
See also hosed. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk'... - frowney n.
(alt.
`frowney face') See emoticon... - EOU /E-O-U/ n.
The mnemonic of a mythical ASCII control
character (End Of User) that would make an ASR-33 Teletype explode
on receipt.
This construction parodies the numerous obscure ... - bogus adj.
1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus."
2.
Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False. "Your...
