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ANSI standard /an'see stan'd*rd/ The ANSI standard usage of `ANSI standard' refers to any practice which is typical or broadly done.
It's most appropriately applied to things that everyone d...
ANSI standard pizza /an'see stan'd*rd peet'z*/ [CMU] Pepperoni and mushroom pizza.
AOL! n. [Usenet] Common synonym for "Me, too!" alluding to the legendary propensity of America Online users to utter contentless "Me, too!
postings. The number of exclamation points fol...
app /ap/ n. Short for `application program', as opposed to a systems program.
arena n. [common; Unix] The area of memory attached to a process by brk(2) and sbrk(2) and used by malloc(3) as dynamic storage.
So named from a malloc: corrupt arena message emitted whe...
arg /arg/ n. Abbreviation for `argument' (to a function), used so often as to have become a new word (like `piano' from `pianoforte').
The sine function takes 1 arg, but the arc-tange...
ARMM n. [acronym, `Automated Retroactive Minimal Moderation'] A Usenet cancelbot created by Dick Depew of Munroe Falls, Ohio.
ARMM was intended to automatically cancel posts from anonymou...
armor-plated n. Syn. for bulletproof.
asbestos adj. [common] Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from flame
also in other highly flame-suggestive usages. See, for example, asbestos longjoh...
asbestos cork award n.

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