Related:

• xref /X'ref/ v.,n. Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
• hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• abbrev: /*-breev'/, /*-brev'/ n. Common abbreviation for `abbreviation'.
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• elf-reference: n. See {self-reference}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• XOFF: /X-of/ n. Syn. {control-S}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• XON: /X-on/ n. Syn. {control-Q}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• open: n. Abbreviation for `open (or left) parenthesis' --- used when necessary to eliminate oral ambiguity.
  To read aloud the LISP form (DEFUN FOO (X) (PLUS X 1)) one might say...
• barney: n. In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to {fred} (sense #1) as {bar} is to {foo}.
  That is, people who commonly use `fred' as their first metasyntactic variable will often use `barney' second....
• amper: n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character.
  See {{ASCII}} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...