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pider food n. Keywords embedded (usually invisibly) into a web page to attract search engines (spiders).
The intended result of including spider food in one's web page is to insure that ...
piffy /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever, or exceptionally well-designed interface.
Have you seen the spiffy X version of empire yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of a...
pike v. To defeat a selection mechanism by introducing a (sometimes temporary) device that forces a specific result.
The word is used in several industries; telephone engineers refer to ...
pin vi. Equivalent to buzz. More common among C and Unix programmers.
pl /S-P-L/ [abbrev, from Set Priority Level] The way traditional Unix kernels implement mutual exclusion by running code at high interrupt levels.
Used in jargon to describe the act of ...
plash screen n. [Mac users] Syn. banner, sense 3.
plat n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the asterisk (*) character (ASCII 0101010).
This may derive from the `squashed-bug' appearance of the asterisk on many earl...
pod n. [UK] 1. A lower form of life found on talker systems and MUDs.
The spod has few friends in RL and uses talkers instead, finding communication easier and preferable over the net....
poiler n. [Usenet] 1.

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