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• chug vi. To run slowly; to grind or grovel. "The disk is chugging like crazy.
• grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
  This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare...
• grovel: vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress.
  Often used transitively with `over' or `through'....
• illy walk: [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] vi.
  1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task....
• cruncha cruncha cruncha: /kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch*/ interj.
  An encouragement sometimes muttered to a machine bogged down in a serious {grovel}....
• wango: /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
  Often used in combination with {mumble}. For example...
• firmy: /fer'mee/ Syn. {stiffy} (a 3.5-inch floppy disk). -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• egfault: n.,vi. Syn. {segment}, {segmentation fault}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
  esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....