bang
1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001),
especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken
hackish. In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage,
with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek;
but the spread of Unix has carried `bang' with it (esp. via the
term bang path) and it is now certainly the most common spoken
name for !. Note that it is used exclusively for
non-emphatic written !; one would not say "Congratulations
bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted
to specify the exact characters `foo!' one would speak "Eff oh oh
bang". See shriek, ASCII. 2. interj. An exclamation
signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The
dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge
that one has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has
been called on it.
1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001),
especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken
hackish. In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage,
with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek;
but the spread of Unix has carried `bang' with it (esp. via the
term bang path) and it is now certainly the most common spoken
name for !. Note that it is used exclusively for
non-emphatic written !; one would not say "Congratulations
bang" (except possibly for humorous purposes), but if one wanted
to specify the exact characters `foo!' one would speak "Eff oh oh
bang". See shriek, ASCII. 2. interj. An exclamation
signifying roughly "I have achieved enlightenment!", or "The
dynamite has cleared out my brain!" Often used to acknowledge
that one has perpetrated a thinko immediately after one has
been called on it.
Related:
- bang
1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001),
especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in... - excl /eks'kl/ n.
Abbreviation for `exclamation point'.
See bang, shriek, ASCII... - ASCII /as'kee/ n.
[originally an acronym (American
Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely
conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day
computers.
The standard version uses 7 bits for each character... - excl: /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'.
See {bang}, {shriek}, {{ASCII}}. -- The AI Hackers... - cokebottle: /kohk'bot-l/ n. Any very unusual character,
particularly one you can't type because it it isn't... - ACK /ak/ interj.
1. [common; from the ASCII mnemonic
for 0000110] Acknowledge.
Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream... - foo /foo/
1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very
common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely
anything,
esp. programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First... - cokebottle /kohk'bot-l/ n.
Any very unusual character,
particularly one you can't type because it isn't on... - domainist /doh-mayn'ist/ adj.
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analogy with "sexist",
"racist", etc.] Someone who judges people by the...
