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• flood v. [common; IRC] To dump large amounts of text onto an IRC channel.
  This is especially rude when the text is uninteresting and the other users are trying to carry on a serious conversation....
• kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC} channel, an option only available to {CHOP}s.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme {flamage} or {flood}ing, but sometimes used at the chop's whim....
• channel op: /chan'l op/ [IRC] n. Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular {IRC} channel
  commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to {kick} users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs....
• finn: [IRC] v. To pull rank on somebody based on the amount of time one has spent on {IRC}.
  The term derives from the fact that IRC was originally written in Finland in 1987....
• obot: [IRC, MUD] n. An {IRC} or {MUD} user who is actually a program.
  On IRC, typically the robot provides some useful service....
• channel hopping: [IRC, GEnie] n. To rapidly switch channels on {IRC}, or a GEnie chat board, just as a social butterfly might hop from one group to another at a party.
  This term may derive from the TV watcher's idiom, `channel surfing'....
• wilight zone: [IRC] n. Notionally, the area of cyberspace where {IRC} operators live.
  An {op} is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• etburp: [IRC] n. When {netlag} gets really bad, and delays between servers exceed a certain threshhold
  he {IRC} network effectively becomes partitioned for a period of time, and large numbers of people seem to be signing off at the same time and then signing back on again when things get better....
• op: /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
  Less common in the U.S., where {sysop} seems to be preferred....