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Hammer Vt. Commonwealth Hackish Syn. For Bang On.
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hammer vt.
Commonwealth hackish syn. for bang on.
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hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
plingnet /pling'net/ n. Syn. UUCPNET. Also see Commonwealth Hackish, which uses `pling' for bang (as in bang path).
pound on vt. Syn. bang on.
plingnet: /pling'net/ n. Syn. {UUCPNET}. Also see {{Commonwealth Hackish}}, which uses `pling' for {bang} (as in {bang path}).
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
pound on: vt. Syn. {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Commonwealth Hackish n. Hacker jargon as spoken in English outside the U.
S., esp. in the British Commonwealth. It is reported that Commonwealth speakers are more likely to pronounce truncations like `char' and `soc', etc....
xref: /X'ref/ vt., n. Hackish standard abbreviation for `cross-reference'.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
loose bytes n. Commonwealth hackish term for the padding bytes or shims many compilers insert between members of a record or structure to cope with alignment requirements imposed by the machine architecture.
RTBM /R-T-B-M/ imp. [Unix] Commonwealth Hackish variant of RTFM
expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often the entire text of the first reply to a question from a newbie...