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banner ad n. Any of the annoying graphical advertisements that span the tops of way too many Web pages.
bar /bar/ n. 1. [very common] The second metasyntactic variable, after foo and before .
..." 2. Often appended to foo to produce foobar....
bare metal n. 1. [common] New computer hardware, unadorned with such snares and delusions as an operating system, an bit bashing needed to create these basic tools for a new machine.
Real...
barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon"....
barfmail n. Multiple bounce messages accumulating to the level of serious annoyance, or worse.
The sort of thing that happens when an inter-network mail gateway goes down or wonky....
barfulation /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ interj. Variation of barf used around the Stanford area.
An exclamation, expressing disgust....
barfulous /bar'fyoo-l*s/ adj. (alt. `barfucious', /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for esthetic reasons.
barn n. [uncommon; prob. from the nuclear military] An unexpectedly large quantity of something
a unit of measurement. "Why is /var/adm taking up so much space?" "The logs have grown to...
barney n. In Commonwealth hackish, `barney' is to fred (sense #1) as bar is to foo.
baroque adj. [common] Feature-encrusted; complex
gaudy; verging on excessive. Said of hardware or (esp....

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