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• channel op: /chan'l op/ [IRC] n. Someone who is endowed with privileges on a particular {IRC} channel
  commonly abbreviated `chanop' or `CHOP'. These privileges include the right to {kick} users, to change various status bits, and to make others into CHOPs....
• chanop /chan'-op/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• op /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
  Less common in the U.S., where sysop seems to be preferred....
• op: /op/ n. 1. In England and Ireland, common verbal abbreviation for `operator', as in system operator.
  Less common in the U.S., where {sysop} seems to be preferred....
• CHOP /chop/ n. [IRC] See channel op.
• kick v. [IRC] To cause somebody to be removed from a IRC channel, an option only available to channel ops.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme flamage or flooding, but sometimes used at the CHOP's whim....
• ehi [IRC, MUD] "Hello again." Very commonly used to greet people upon returning to an IRC channel after channel hopping.
• kick: [IRC] v. To cause somebody to be removed from a {IRC} channel, an option only available to {CHOP}s.
  This is an extreme measure, often used to combat extreme {flamage} or {flood}ing, but sometimes used at the chop's whim....
• wilight zone n. // [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live.
  An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone"....