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• dehose /dee-hohz/ vt. To clear a hosed condition.
• kluge around: vt. To avoid a bug or difficult condition by inserting a {kluge}.
  Compare {workaround}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hosed: adj. Same as {down}. Used primarily by UNIX hackers.
  Humorous: also implies a condition thought to be relatively easy to reverse....
• pound on: vt. Syn. {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• condition out: vt. To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false.
  The {canonical} examples of these directives are `#if 0' (or `#ifdef notdef', though some find the latter {bletcherous}) and `#endif' in C....
• hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• hose: 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• anked: adj. Same as {down}, used primarily by UNIX hackers.
  See also {hosed}. Popularized as a synonym for `drunk' by Steve Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comic strip....
• depeditate: /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt.
  Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders....