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• channel hopping: [IRC, GEnie] n. To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....
• urf v. [from the `surf' idiom for rapidly flipping TV channels] To traverse the Internet in search of interesting stuff, used esp.
  if one is doing so with a World Wide Web browser. It is also common to speak of `surfing in' to a particular resource....
• CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• ehi [IRC, MUD] "Hello again." Very commonly used to greet people upon returning to an IRC channel after channel hopping.
• kick v. [IRC] To cause somebody to be removed from a IRC channel, an option only available to channel ops.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme flamage or flooding, but sometimes used at the CHOP's whim....
• chanop /chan'-op/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• IRC: /I-R-C/ [Internet Relay Chat] n. A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• IRC /I-R-C/ n. [Internet Relay Chat] A worldwide "party line" network that allows one to converse with others in real time.
  IRC is structured as a network of Internet servers, each of which accepts connections from client programs, one per user....
• channel n. [IRC] The basic unit of discussion on IRC.
  Once one joins a channel, everything one types is read by others on that channel....