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BATTLE, n. A method of untying with the teeth of a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
Battle's magnificently stern array.
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iii, Stanza 28...
Battling inanimate objects is pointless.
Batton down the hatches, several thousand Zulus approaching from the north.
-- Christopher Commission report of LAPD car-to-car computer message, 7/91...
baud barf: /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp.
line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension ...
baud: /bawd/ [simplified from its technical meaning] n.
Bits per second. Hence kilobaud or Kbaud, thousands of bits per second....
Baud, James: Famous British spy/modemer.
BAUD - lady of the evening -- Data communications glossary
baud rate -- the speed at which you can move your bod.
Baumber (n.) A fitted elasticated bottom sheet wich turns your mattress banana-shaped.

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