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quarter n. Two bits. This in turn comes from the `pieces of eight' famed in pirate movies -- Spanish silver crowns that could be broken into eight pie-slice-shaped `bits' to make change.
ques /kwes/ 1. n. The question mark character (?
ASCII 0111111). 2. interj. What? Also frequently verb-doubled as "Ques ques?" See wall....
quick-and-dirty adj. [common] Describes a crock put together under time or user pressure.
Used esp....
quine /kwi:n/ n. [from the name of the logician Willard van Orman Quine, via Douglas Hofstadter] A program that generates a copy of its own source text as its complete output.
Devising the ...
quote chapter and verse v. [by analogy with the mainstream phrase] To cite a relevant excerpt from an appropriate bible.
"I don't care if rn gets it wrong; `Followup-To: poster' is explic...
quotient n. See coefficient of X.
quux /kwuhks/ n. [Mythically, from the Latin semi-deponent verb quuxo, quuxare, quuxandum iri
QWERTY /kwer'tee/ adj.
abbit job n. [Cambridge] A batch job that does little, if any, real work, but creates one or more copies of itself, breeding like rabbits.
Compare wabbit, fork bomb....

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