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Bogue Out /bohg Owt/ Vi. To Become Bogus, Suddenly And Unexpectedly.
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bogue out /bohg owt/ vi.
To become bogus, suddenly and
unexpectedly. "His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked
him a trick question; then he bogued out and did nothing but
flame afterwards." See also bogosity, bogus
Related:
bogue out: /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly.
His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick questio...
bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring bogosity.
Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also bogus....
bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring {bogosity}.
Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank} entry...
bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogon /boh'gon/ n. [very common; by analogy with proton/electron/neutron, but doubtless reinforced after 1980 by the similarity to Douglas Adams's `Vogons'
ee the Bibliography in Appendix C and note that Arthur Dent actually mispronounces `Vogons' as `Bogons' at one point] 1....
bogus adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....