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padded cell n. Where you put lusers so they can't hurt anything.
page in v. [MIT] 1. To become aware of one's surroundings again after having paged out (see page out).
Usually confined to the sarcastic comment: "Eric pages in, film at 11!" 2. Syn. `sw...
page out vi. [MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily, due to daydreaming or preoccupation.
"Can you repeat that? I paged out for a minute." See page in. Compare swap...
pain in the net n. A flamer.
Pangloss parity n. [from Dr.
paper-net n. Hackish way of referring to the postal service, analogizing it to a very slow, low-reliability network.
Usenet sig blocks sometimes include a "Paper-Net:" header just before...
param /p*-ram'/ n. [common] Shorthand for `parameter'. See also parm; compare arg, var.
PARC n. See XEROX PARC.
parent message n. What a followup follows up.
parity errors pl.n. Little lapses of attention or (in more severe cases) consciousness, usually brought on by having spent all night and most of the next day hacking.
I need to go home a...

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