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• ques: /kwes/ 1. n. The question mark character (`?', ASCII 0111111).
  2. interj. What? Also frequently verb-doubled as "Ques ques?...
• ASCII /as'kee/ n. [originally an acronym (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) but now merely conventional] The predominant character set encoding of present-day computers.
  The standard version uses 7 bits for each character, whereas most earlier codes (including early drafts of of ASCII prior to June 1961) used fewer....
• plat n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....
• SO /S-O/ n. 1. (also `S.O.') Abbrev. for Significant Other, almost invariably written abbreviated and pronounced /S-O/ by hackers.
  Used to refer to one's primary relationship, esp....
• Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes.
  Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: <ampersand&g...
• plat: n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (`*') character (ASCII 0101010).
  This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many early line printers....
• gritch: /grich/ 1. n. A complaint (often caused by a {glitch}).
  2. vi. To complain. Often verb-doubled: "Gritch gritch"....
• hud n. 1. Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
  It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....
• hud: n. 1. Yet another {metasyntactic variable} (see {foo}).
  It is reported that at CMU from the mid-1970s the canonical series of these was `foo', `bar', `thud', `blat'....