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• zen: vt. To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden flash of enlightenment.
  Originally applied to bugs, but occasionally applied to problems of life in general....
• glark /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
  "The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
• glark: /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
  The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
• grok /grok/, var. /grohk/ vt. [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A.
  Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] The emphatic form is `grok in fullness'....
• grok: /grok/, var. /grohk/ [from the novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", by Robert A.
  Heinlein, where it is a Martian word meaning literally `to drink' and metaphorically `to be one with'] vt....
• RTFM: /R-T-F-M/ [UNIX] imp. Acronym for `Read The Fucking Manual'.
  1. Used by {guru}s to brush off questions they consider trivial or annoying....
• mode n. [common] A general state, usually used with an adjective describing the state.
  Use of the word `mode' rather than `state' implies that the state is extended over time, and probably also that some activity characteristic of that state is being carried out....
• hack [very common] 1. n. Originally, a quick job that produces what is needed, but not well.
  2. n. An incredibly good, and perhaps very time-consuming, piece of work that produces exactly what is needed....
• guru meditation n. Amiga equivalent of `panic' in Unix (sometimes just called a `guru' or `guru event').
  When the system crashes, a cryptic message of the form "GURU MEDITATION #XXXXXXXX....