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• dirtball: [XEROX PARC] n. A small, perhaps struggling outside
  not in the major or even the minor leagues. For example, "Xerox is not a dirtball company"....
• fum: [XEROX PARC] n. At PARC, often the third of the standard {metasyntactic variable}s (after {foo} and {bar}).
  Competes with {baz}, which is more common outside PARC. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
• fum n. [XEROX PARC] At PARC, often the third of the standard metasyntactic variables (after foo and bar).
  Competes with baz, which is more common outside PARC....
• XEROX PARC: /zee'roks park'/ The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
  For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....
• fontology: [XEROX PARC] n. The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.
  g., for window systems and typesetting software)....
• worm: [from `tapeworm' in John Brunner's novel "The Shockwave Rider", via XEROX PARC] n.
  A program that propagates itself over a network, reproducing itself as it goes....
• What's a spline?: [XEROX PARC] This phrase expands to
  You have just used a term that I've heard for a year and a half, and I feel I should know, but don't....
• XEROX PARC /zee'roks park'/ n. The famed Palo Alto Research Center.
  For more than a decade, from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s, PARC yielded an astonishing volume of groundbreaking hardware and software innovations....