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Jargon File
- ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/
[CMU]
Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
Coined allegedly because most pizzas
ordered by...
- AOL! n.
[Usenet] Common synonym for "Me, too!"
alluding to the legendary propensity of America Online users to
utter contentless "Me,
too!" postings. The number of exclamation
points...
- app /ap/ n.
Short for `application program', as opposed
to a systems program.
Apps are what systems vendors are forever
chasing...
- arena n.
[common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a
process by brk(2) and sbrk(2) and used by
malloc(3) as dynamic storage.
So named from a malloc:
corrupt arena message emitted...
- arg /arg/ n.
Abbreviation for `argument' (to a
function),
used so often as to have become a new word (like
...
- ARMM n.
[acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal
Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls,
Ohio. ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts...
- armor-plated n.
Syn.
for bulletproof...
- asbestos adj.
[common] Used as a modifier to anything
intended to protect one from flames;
also in other highly
flame-suggestive usages. See...
- asbestos cork award n.
Once, long ago at MIT, there was a
flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed,
had made, and distributed posters announcing that said...
- asbestos longjohns n.
Notional garments donned by
Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will
elicit flamage.
This is the most common of the asbestos
coinages...
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