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FAQ list /F-A-Q list/ or /fak list/ n. [common; Usenet] Syn FAQ, sense 2.
FAQL /fa'kl/ n. Syn. FAQ list.
faradize /far'*-di:z/ v. [US Geological Survey] To start any hyper-addictive process or trend, or to continue adding current to such a trend.
Telling one user about a new octo-tetris game yo...
farkled /far'kld/ adj. [DeVry Institute of Technology, Atlanta] Syn.
hosed. Poss....
farming n. [Adelaide University, Australia] What the heads of a disk drive are said to do when they plow little furrows in the magnetic media.
Associated with a crash. Typically used as ...
fascist adj. 1. [common] Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
The implication is that said policies are preventing hac...
fat electrons n. Old-time hacker David Cargill's theory on the causation of computer glitches.
fat-finger vt. 1. To introduce a typo while editing in such a way that the resulting manglification of a configuration file does something useless, damaging, or wildly unexpected.
NSI fa...
faulty adj. Non-functional; buggy. Same denotation as bletcherous, losing, q.
v., but the connotation is much milder....
fd leak /F-D leek/ n.

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