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• fork bomb: [UNIX] n. A particular species of {wabbit} that can be written in one line of C (`main() {for(
  )fork();}') or shell (`$0 & $0 &') on any UNIX system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug....
• forked adj. [Unix; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] Terminally slow, or dead.
  Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb....
• abbit job n. [Cambridge] A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits.
  Compare wabbit, fork bomb....
• abbit job: [Cambridge] n. A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits.
  Compare {wabbit}, {fork bomb}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• wabbit /wab'it/ n. [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
• wabbit: /wab'it/ [almost certainly from Elmer Fudd's immortal line "You wascawwy wabbit!
  ] n. 1. A legendary early hack reported on a System/360 at RPI and elsewhere around 1978...
• unixism n. A piece of code or a coding technique that depends on the protected multi-tasking environment with relatively low process-spawn overhead that exists on virtual-memory Unix systems.
  Common unixisms include: gratuitous use of fork(2)...
• forked: [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj.
  Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent {fork bomb}....
• eplicator: n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself
  his could be a living organism, an idea (see {meme}), a program (see {quine}, {worm}, {wabbit}, {fork bomb}, and {virus}), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see {life}, sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or {nanobot}....