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bixie /bik'see/ n. Variant emoticons used on BIX (the BIX Information eXchange).
The most common (smiley) bixie is <@_@>, representing two cartoon eyes and a mouth....
black art n. [common] A collection of arcane, unpublished, and (by implication) mostly ad-hoc techniques developed for a particular application or systems area (compare black magic).
VLSI...
black hole n.,vt.
black magic n. [common] A technique that works, though nobody really understands why.
More obscure than voodoo programming, which may be black art, deep magic, and...
Black Screen of Death n. [prob. related to the Floating Head of Death in a famous "Far Side" cartoon.
] A failure mode of Microsloth Windows. On an attempt to launch a DOS box, a networked...
Black Thursday n. February 8th, 1996 - the day of the signing into law of the CDA, so called by analogy with the catastrophic "Black Friday" in 1929 that began the Great Depression.
blammo v. [Oxford Brookes University and alumni, UK] To forcibly remove someone from any interactive system, especially talker systems.
The operators, who may remain hidden, may `blammo' a...
blargh /blarg/ n. [MIT; now common] The opposite of ping, sense 5
an exclamation indicating that one has absorbed or is emitting a quantum of unhappiness....
blast 1. v.,n. Synonym for BLT, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
Opposite of snarf. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
blat n. 1. Syn. blast, sense 1. 2. See thud.

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