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• lopsucker: /slop'suhk-r/ n. A lowest-priority task that waits around until everything else has `had its fill' of machine resources.
  Only when the machine would otherwise be idle is the task allowed to `suck up the slop'....
• background n.,adj.,vt. [common] To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• hungry puppy n. Syn. slopsucker.
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....
• hungry puppy: n. Syn. {slopsucker}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• Internet n. The mother of all networks. First incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET, a U.
  S. Department of Defense research testbed. Though it has been widely believed that the goal was to develop a network architecture for military command-and-control that could survive disruptions up to and including nuclear war, this is a myth...
• bottom feeder n. Syn. for slopsucker, derived from the fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist on the primordial ooze.
• Extended Epstein-Heisenberg Principle In an R & D orbit, only 2 of the existing 3 parameters can be defined simultaneously.
  The parameters are: task, time and resources ($...
• bottom feeder: n. Syn. for {slopsucker}, derived from the fishermen's and naturalists' term for finny creatures who subsist on the primordial ooze.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...