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bogometer: /boh-gom'-*t-er/ n. A notional instrument for measuring {bogosity}.
Compare the `wankometer' described in the {wank} entry...
bogon filter: /boh'gon fil'tr/ n. Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons.
"Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the...
bogon flux: /boh'gon fluhks/ n. A measure of a supposed field of {bogosity} emitted by a speaker, measured by a {bogometer}
as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener ...
bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}...
bogo-sort: /boh`goh-sort'/ n. (var. `stupid-sort') The archetypical perversely awful algorithm (as opposed to {bubble sort}, which is merely the generic *bad* algorithm).
Bogo-sort is equiva...
bogotify: /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogue out: /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly.
His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick questio...
bogus: adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....
BOH: Branch On Humidity
BOH: Branch on Operator High

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