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• mangle: vt. 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....
• ash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble....
• IBM: I've Been Mangled
• 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...
• ash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including {mung}, {mangle}, and {scribble}....
• cribble n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
  Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
• cribble: n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
  Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....