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• woofer n. [University of Waterloo] Some varieties of wide paper for printers have a perforation 8.
  5 inches from the left margin that allows the excess on the right-hand side to be torn off when the print format is 80 columns or less wide....
• weeter n. [University of Waterloo] Syn. perf, chad (sense 1).
  This term (like woofer) has been in use at Waterloo since 1972 but is elsewhere unknown....
• weeter: [University of Waterloo] n. Syn. {perf}, {chad} (sense 1).
  This term (like {woofer}) has been in use at Waterloo since 1972 but is elsewhere unknown....
• boustrophedon: [from a Greek word for turning like an ox while plowing] n.
  An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines....
• cruft: /kruhft/ [back-formation from {crufty}] 1. n.
  An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...
• boustrophedon n. [from a Greek word for turning like an ox while plowing] An ancient method of writing using alternate left-to-right and right-to-left lines.
  This term is actually philologists' techspeak and typesetters' jargon....
• bboard: /bee'bord/ [contraction of `bulletin board'] n.
  1. Any electronic bulletin board; esp. used of {BBS} systems running on personal micros, less frequently of a USENET {newsgroup} (in fact, use of this term for a newsgroup generally marks one either as a {newbie} fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating USENET)....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• cruft /kruhft/ [very common; back-formation from crufty] 1.
  . An unpleasant substance. The dust that gathers under your bed is cruf...