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Adger /aj'r/ Vt. [UCLA Mutant Of Nadger, Poss.
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adger /aj'r/ vt.
[UCLA mutant of nadger,
poss. also from the middle name of an infamous tenured graduate student] T
been foreseen with even slight mental effort. E.g., "He started
removing files and promptly adgered the whole project". Compare
dumbass attack.
Related:
adger: /aj'r/ [UCLA] vt. To make a bonehead move with consequences that could have been foreseen with even slight mental effort.
E.g., "He started removing files and promptly adgered the whole project"....
dumbass attack /duhm'as *-tak'/ n. [Purdue] Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as root under Unix, e.
g., typing rm -r * or mkfs on a mounted file system. Compare adger....
dumbass attack: /duhm'as *-tak'/ [Purdue] n. Notional cause of a novice's mistake made by the experienced, especially one made while running as {root} under UNIX, e.
g., typing `rm -r *' or `mkfs' on a mounted file system....
GFR /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
N: /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
"There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
N /N/ quant. 1. A large and indeterminate number of objec
There were N bugs in that crock!" Also used in its original sense of a variable name...
LDB /l*'d*b/ vt. [from the PDP-10 instruction set] To extract from the middle.
LDB me a slice of cake, please." This usage has been kept alive by Common LISP's function of the same name....
LDB: /l*'d*b/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
To extract from the middle. "LDB me a slice of cake, please....