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• ash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble....
• crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
  The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....
• mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• mash the stack: [C programming] n. To corrupt the execution stack by writing past the end of a local array or other data structure.
  Code that smashes the stack can cause a return from the routine to jump to a random address, resulting in some of the most insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind....
• cribble: n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
  Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
• mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
• clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
  I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
• oach: [Bell Labs] vt. To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets {toast}ed or {fried}, software gets roached. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• omp on: vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
  All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....