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• octal forty: /ok'tl for'tee/ n. Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank.
  Octal 40 is the {{ASCII}} space character, 0100000...
• meta bit n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128-255.
  Also called high bit, alt bit, or (rarely) hobbit....
• meta bit: n. The top bit of an 8-bit character, which is on in character values 128--255.
  Also called {high bit}, {alt bit}, or {hobbit}....
• ques /kwes/ 1. n. The question mark character (?
  ASCII 0111111). 2. interj. What? Also frequently verb-doubled as "Ques ques?" See wall....
• 0033 Can you read and write ASCII in hex or octal? 0034 Do you know the names of all the ASCII control codes?
  -- from THE HACKER TEST...
• bucky bits /buh'kee bits/ n. 1. obs. The bits produced by the CONTROL and META shift keys on a SAIL keyboard (octal 200 and 400 respectively), resulting in a 9-bit keyboard character set.
  The MIT AI TV (Knight) keyboards extended this with TOP and separate left and right CONTROL and META keys, resulting in a 12-bit character se...
• amper n. Common abbreviation for the name of the ampersand (`&
  ', ASCII 0100110) character. See ASCII for other synonyms....
• hat n. Common (spoken) name for the circumflex (`^', ASCII 1011110) character.
  See ASCII for other synonyms....
• lash n. Common name for the slant (`/', ASCII 0101111) character.
  See ASCII for other synonyms....