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Jargon File
- black art n.
[common] A collection of arcane,
unpublished,
and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques
developed...
- black hole n.,vt.
[common] What data (a piece of email
or netnews,
or a stream of TCP/IP packets) has fallen into if it...
- black magic n.
[common] A technique that works, though
nobody really understands why.
More obscure than voodoo programming, which may be...
- Black Screen of Death n.
[prob. related to the
Floating Head of Death in a famous "Far Side" cartoon.] A
failure mode of Microsloth Windows.
On an attempt to launch a
DOS box, a...
- Black Thursday n.
February 8th, 1996 - the day of the
signing into law of the CDA,
so called by analogy with the
catastrophic "Black...
- blammo v.
[Oxford Brookes University and alumni,
UK] To
forcibly remove someone from any interactive...
- blargh /blarg/ n.
[MIT; now common] The opposite of
ping,
sense 5; an exclamation indicating that one has absorbed...
- blast 1. v.,n.
Synonym for BLT, used esp. for large
data sends over a network or comm line.
Opposite of snarf.
Usage: uncommon. The variant...
- blat n.
1. Syn. blast, sense 1. 2.
See thud...
- bletch /blech/ interj.
[very common; from
Yiddish/German `brechen',
to vomit, poss. via comic-strip
exclamation `blech']...
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