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bogotify /boh-go't*-fi:/ vt. To make or become bogus.
A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganized has become bogotified....
bogue out /bohg owt/ vi. To become bogus, suddenly and unexpectedly.
His talk was relatively sane until somebody asked him a trick questio...
bogus adj. 1. Non-functional. "Your patches are bogus.
2. Useless. "OPCON is a bogus program." 3. False....
Bohr bug /bohr buhg/ n. [from quantum physics] A repeatable bug
one that manifests reliably under a possibly unknown but well-defined set of conditions....
boink /boynk/ [Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers" "Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1.
v. To have sex with; compare bounce, sense 3. (This is mainstream slang.) In Commonwealth...
bomb 1. v. General synonym for crash (sense 1) except that it is not used as a nou
esp. used of software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K stack, it'll bomb....
bondage-and-discipline language n.
bonk/oif /bonk/, /oyf/ interj. In the U.S. MUD community, it has become traditional to express pique or censure by `bonking' the offending person.
Convention holds that one should acknowl...
boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given ri...

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