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• bogometer /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring bogosity.
  Compare the Troll-O-Meter and the `wankometer' described in the wank entry; see also bogus....
• bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
  At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
• wank: /wangk/ [Columbia University: prob. by mutation from Commonwealth slang v.
  `wank', to masturbate] n.,v. Used much as {hack} is elsewhere, as a noun denoting a clever technique or person or the result of such cleverness....
• bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
  A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
• bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
  Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
• bogon filter: /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
  "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets....
• bogon flux: /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of {bogosity} emitted by a speaker, measured by a {bogometer}
  as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising"....
• bogue out: /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly.
  His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick questio...
• bogo-sort: /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm).
  Bogo-sort is equivalent to repeatedly throwing a deck of cards in the air, picking them up at random, and then testing whether they are in order....