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• veeblefester /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ n. [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore
  prob. originally from "Mad" Magazine's `Veeblefetzer' parodies beginning in #15, 1954] Any obnoxious person engaged in the (alleged) professions of marketing or management....
• uit: n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....
• alescritter: /sayls'kri`tr/ n. Pejorative hackerism for a computer salesperson.
  Hackers tell the following joke: Q. What's the difference between a used-car dealer and a computer salesman?...
• otwork: /not'werk/ n. A network, when it is acting {flaky} or is {down}.
  Compare {nyetwork}. Said at IBM to have originally referred to a particular period of flakiness on IBM's VNET corporate network ca....
• crool: /skrool/ [from the pioneering Roundtable chat system in Houston ca.
  1984; prob. originated as a typo for `scroll'] n. The log of old messages, available for later perusal or to help one get back in synch with the conversation....
• English: 1. n.,obs. The source code for a program, which may be in any language, as opposed to the linkable or executable binary produced from it by a compiler.
  The idea behind the term is that to a real hacker, a program written in his favorite programming language is at least as readable as English....
• Yow!: /yow/ [from "Zippy the Pinhead" comix] interj.
  A favored hacker expression of humorous surprise or emphasis....
• Vulcan nerve pinch: n. [from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature).
  On many micros this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A...
• uit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by non-hackers.
  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain....