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mouse around vi. To explore public portions of a large system, esp.
a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf....
mouse belt n. See rat belt.
mouse droppings n.
mouse elbow n. A tennis-elbow-like fatigue syndrome resulting from excessive use of a WIMP environment.
Similarly, `mouse shoulder'; GLS reports that he used to get this a lot before he...
mouso /mow'soh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] An error in mouse usage resulting in an inappropriate selection or graphic garbage on the screen.
Compare thinko, braino....
MS-DOS /M-S-dos/ n.
mu /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
. Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" i...
MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.
Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet....
muddie n. Syn. mudhead. More common in Great Britain, possibly because system administrators there like to mutter "bloody muddies" when annoyed at the species.
mudhead n. Commonly used to refer to a MUD player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.
Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out, etc....

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