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• excl /eks'kl/ n. Abbreviation for `exclamation point'. See bang, shriek, ASCII.
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• bang 1. n. Common spoken name for ! (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a bang path in spoken hackish.
  In elder days this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring excl or shriek...
• amper: n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&', ASCII 0100110) character.
  See {{ASCII}} for other synonyms. -- 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...
• hat: n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`^', ASCII 1011110) character.
  See {ASCII} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• udel: n. Common (spoken) name for the at-sign (`@', ASCII 1000000) character.
  See {ASCII} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• lash: n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character.
  See {ASCII} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• oke: n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character.
  See {ASCII} for other synonyms. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...