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• Vulcan nerve pinch n. [from the old "Star Trek" TV series via Commodore Amiga hackers] The keyboard combination that forces a soft-boot or jump to ROM monitor (on machines that support such a feature).
  On many micros this is Ctrl-Alt-Del; on Suns, L1-A...
• paceship operator n. The glyph <=>, so-called apparently because in the low-resolution constant-width font used on many terminals it vaguely resembles a flying saucer.
  Perl uses this to denote the signum-of-difference operation....
• Common: percent; <percent sign>; mod; grapes.
  Rare: [double-oh-seven]. & Common: <ampersand&g...
• bixie /bik'see/ n. Variant emoticons used on BIX (the BIX Information eXchange).
  The most common (smiley) bixie is <@_@>, representing two cartoon eyes and a mouth....
• broket /broh'k*t/ or /broh'ket`/ n. [rare; by analogy with `bracket'
  a `broken bracket'] Either of the characters &l...
• interrupt list n. [MS-DOS] The list of all known software interrupt calls (both documented and undocumented) for IBM PCs and compatible
  maintained and made available for free redistribution by Ralf Brown &l...
• Perl /perl/ n. [Practical Extraction and Report Language, a.
  k.a. Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister] An interpreted language developed by Larry Wall (&l...
• precedence lossage /pre's*-dens los'*j/ n. [C programmers] Coding error in an expression due to unexpected grouping of arithmetic or logical operators by the compiler.
  Used esp. of certain common coding errors in C due to the nonintuitively low precedence levels of &...
• geek code n. (also "Code of the Geeks"). A set of codes commonly used in sig blocks to broadcast the interests, skills, and aspirations of the poster.
  Features a G at the left margin followed by numerous letter codes, often suffixed with plusses or minuses....