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• urist: /too'rist/ n. Var. sp. of {tourist}, q.v. Also in adjectival form, `turistic'.
  Poss. influenced by {luser} and `Turing'. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ourist n. 1. [ITS] A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for comm mode, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below luser. ITS hackers often used to spell this turist, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with luser (this usage may also have expressed the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms, and-or been some sort of tribute to Alan Turing)....
• ourist: [ITS] n. A guest on the system, especially one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for {comm mode}, email, games, and other trivial purposes.
  One step below {luser}. Hackers often spell this {turist}, perhaps by some sort of tenuous analogy with {luser} (this also expresses the ITS culture's penchant for six-letterisms)....
• wank /wangk/ n.,v.,adj. [Columbia University: prob.
  by mutation from Commonwealth slang v. `wank', to masturbate] Used much as hack is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• param /p*-ram'/ n. [common] Shorthand for `parameter'. See also parm; compare arg, var.
• ouristic adj. Having the quality of a tourist. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum'.
  Often spelled `turistic' or `turistik', so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum'....
• ouristic: adj. Having the quality of a {tourist}. Often used as a pejorative, as in `losing touristic scum'.
  Often spelled `turistic' or `turistik', so that phrase might be more properly rendered `lusing turistic scum'....
• var /veir/ or /var/ n. Short for `variable'. Compare arg, param.
• mundane n. [from SF fandom] 1. A person who is not in science fiction fandom.
  2. A person who is not in the computer industry....