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• BOF: /B-O-F/ or /bof/ n. Abbreviation for the phrase "Birds Of a Feather" (flocking together), an informal discussion group and/or bull session scheduled on a conference program.
  It is not clear where or when this term originated, but it is now associated with the USENIX conferences for UNIX techies and was already established there by 1984....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Berzerkeley /b*r-zer'klee/ n. [from `berserk', via the name of a now-deceased record label
  poss. originated by famed columnist Herb Caen] Humorous distortion of `Berkeley' used esp....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• mung /muhng/ vt. [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
  sometime after that the derivation from the recursive acronym `Mung Until No Good' became standard...
• flame [at MIT, orig. from the phrase `flaming asshole'] 1.
  vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke....
• flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an fflush(3) call....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....