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• hand-roll: [from obs. mainstream slang `hand-rolled' in opposition to `ready-made', referring to cigarettes] v.
  To perform a normally automated software installation or configuration process {by hand}...
• You can trust your public utility about as far as you can hand roll a bulldozer. -- Edward Abbey
• une vt. [from automotive or musical usage] To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
  by adjusting numerical parameters designed as hooks for tuning, e....
• une: [from automotive or musical usage] vt. To optimize a program or system for a particular environment, esp.
  by adjusting numerical parameters designed as {hook}s for tuning, e....
• Morticia, Thing needs a hand.
• In the natural childbirth classes my wife and I took, the birthing process was represented by a hand puppet being pushed through a sock.
  So, at the actual birth, I was shocked to see all this blood....
• Escape charges were lodged against a Buffalo burglary suspect last June after he overpowered two city police officers without laying a hand on them.
  In the words of the police report, the man "did escape from custody, in that the defendant did flatulate in the car causing an exteme noxious odor forcing officers to roll down all windows in the vehicle to ventilate it, at which time defendant lunged his body out the side window....
• Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him Naughton of the New York Time
  for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under....
• Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. -- Giuseppe Garibaldi