- ANSI standard /an'see stan'd*rd/
The ANSI standard usage
of `ANSI standard' refers to any practice which is typical or broadly
done
It's most appropriately applied to things that everyone... - 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...
