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• gonk /gonk/ vi.,n. 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition.
  In German the term is (mythically) `gonken'; in Spanish the verb becomes `gonkar'....
• gonkulator: /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ [from the old "Hogan's Heroes" TV series] n.
  A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose....
• gronk out: vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go to sleep.
  I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow." -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• flap: vt. 1. To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap.
  ..). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and {microtape}s were 1, 2,....
• grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt....
• gonkulator /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ n. [common; from the 1960s "Hogan's Heroes" TV series] A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose.
  Usually used to describe one's least favorite piece of computer hardware. See gonk....
• power cycle: vt. (also, `cycle power' or just `cycle') To power off a machine and then power it on immediately, with the intention of clearing some kind of {hung} or {gronk}ed state.
  Syn. {120 reset}; see also {Big Red Switch}. Compare {Vulcan nerve pinch}, {bounce} (sense 4), and {boot}, and see the AI Koan in "{A Selection of AI Koans}" (in {Appendix A}) about Tom Knight and the novice....
• frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...