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• kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC} channel, an option only available to {CHOP}s.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme {flamage} or {flood}ing, but sometimes used at the chop's whim....
• CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• op /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
  Less common in the U.S., where sysop seems to be preferred....
• op: /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
  Less common in the U.S., where {sysop} seems to be preferred....
• ehi [IRC, MUD] "Hello again." Very commonly used to greet people upon returning to an IRC channel after channel hopping.
• flood v. [common; IRC] To dump large amounts of text onto an IRC channel.
  This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation....
• channel op /chan'l op/ n. [IRC] Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular IRC channel
  commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to kick users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs....
• channel op: /chan'l op/ [IRC] n. Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular {IRC} channel
  commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to {kick} users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs....
• link-dead adj. [MUD] The state a player is in when they kill their connection to a MUD without leaving it properly.
  The player is then commonly left as a statue in the game, and is only removed after a certain period of time (an hour on most MUDs)....