- boxen /bok'sn/ pl.n.
[very common; by analogy with
VAXen] Fanciful plural of box often encountered in the
phrase `Unix boxen',
used to describe commodity Unix hardware. The connotation... - boxology /bok-sol'*-jee/ n.
Syn. ASCII art. This
term implies a more restricted domain,
that of box-and-arrow drawings. "His report has... - bozotic /boh-zoh'tik/ or /boh-zo'tik/ adj.
[from
the name of a TV clown even more losing than Ronald McDonald]
Resembling or having the quality of a bozo;
that is, clownish, ludicrously... - BQS /B-Q-S/ adj.
Syn.
Berkeley Quality Software... - brain dump n.
[common] The act of telling someone
everything one knows about a particular topic or project.
Typically used when someone is going to let a new party... - brain fart n.
The actual result of a braino, as
opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself.
E.g., typing dir on a Unix box after a session with... - brain-damaged adj.
1. [common; generalization of
`Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD),
a theoretical disease invented to explain certain... - brain-dead adj.
[common] Brain-damaged in the extreme.
It tends to imply terminal design failure rather than... - braino /bray'no/ n.
Syn. for thinko.
See also brain fart... - branch to Fishkill n.
[IBM: from the location of one of the
corporation's facilities] Any unexpected jump in a program that
produces catastrophic or just plain weird results.
See jump off...
