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peta- /pe't*/ pref [SI] See quantifiers.
PETSCII /pet'skee/ n. obs.
PFY n. [Usenet; common] Abbreviation for `Pimply-Faced Youth'.
A BOFH in training, esp. one apprenticed to an elder BOFH aged in evil....
phage n. A program that modifies other programs or databases in unauthorized way
esp. one that propagates a virus or Trojan horse....
phase 1. n. The offset of one's waking-sleeping schedule with respect to the standard 24-hour cycle
a useful concept among people who often work at night and/or according to no fixed sche...
phase of the moon n. Used humorously as a random parameter on which something is said to depend.
Sometimes implies unreliability of whatever is dependent, or that reliability seems to be...
phase-wrapping n. [MIT] Syn. wrap around, sense 2.
PHB /P-H-B/ [Usenet; common; rarely spoken] Abbreviation, "Pointy-Haired Boss".
From the Dilbert character, the archetypal halfwitted middle-management type....
phreaker /freek'r/ n. One who engages in phreaking.
phreaking /freek'ing/ n. [from `phone phreak'] 1.
The art and science of cracking the phone network (so as, for example, to make free long-distance calls)....

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