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monstrosity 1. n. A ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp.
one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
An example would be a menu-driven, button clic...
Moof /moof/ [Macintosh users] 1. n. The call of a semi-legendary creature, properly called the dogcow.
(Some previous versions of this entry claimed, incorrectly, that Moof was the name o...
Moore's Law /morz law/ prov.
moose call n. See whalesong.
moria /mor'ee-*/ n. Like nethack and rogue, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems.
The name is from...
MOTAS /moh-tahz/ n. [Usenet: Member Of The Appropriate Sex, after MOTOS and MOTSS] A potential or (less often) actual sex partner.
See also SO....
MOTOS /moh-tohs/ n. [acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via Usene
Member Of The Opposite Sex] A potential or (less often) actual sex partner....
MOTSS /mots/ or /M-O-T-S-S/ n. [from the 1970 U.
S. census forms via Usenet] Member Of The Same Sex, esp....
mouse ahead vi. Point-and-click analog of `type ahead'.

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