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bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
Bitter pills may have sweet effects. -- Proverb
Bit: The increment by which programmers slowly go mad. -- Computing Definitio
Bit - twelve and a half cents -- Data communications glossary
bit twiddling: n. 1.
bitty box: /bit'ee boks/ n. 1. A computer sufficiently small, primitive, or incapable as to cause a hacker acute claustrophobia at the thought of developing software on or for it.
Especially ...
Bit: Unit by which programmers lose their sanity.
bixie: /bik'see/ n. Variant {emoticon}s used on BIX (the Byte Information eXchange).
The {smiley} bixie is <@_@>, apparently intending to represent two cartoon eyes and a mouth....
Bizarreness is the essence of the exotic.
Bizoos, n.: The millions of tiny individual bumps that make up a basketball.
-- Rich Hall, "Snigle...

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