Related:

• gunch /guhnch/ vt. [TMRC] To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
  Implies a threat to mung....
• mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• geef: v. [ostensibly from `gefingerpoken'] vt. Syn.
  {mung}. See also {blinkenlights}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hack up: vt. To {hack}, but generally implies that the result is a hack in sense 1 (a quick hack).
  Contrast this with {hack on}. To `hack up on' implies a {quick-and-dirty} modification to an existing system....
• ash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
  The most common of the family of near-synonyms including {mung}, {mangle}, and {scribble}....
• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....
• mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
• clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
  I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
• TMRCie: /tmerk'ee/, [MIT] n. A denizen of {TMRC}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary