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flame war n. [common] (var. `flamewar') An acrimonious dispute, especially when conducted on a public electronic forum such as Usenet.
flamer n. [common] One who habitually flames. Said esp. of obnoxious Usenet personalities.
flap vt. 1. [obs.] To unload a DECtape (so it goes flap, flap, flap.
..). Old-time hackers at MIT tell of the days when the disk was device 0 and DEC microtapes were 1, 2,....
flarp /flarp/ n. [Rutgers University] Yet another metasyntactic variable (see foo).
flat adj. 1. [common] Lacking any complex internal structure.
That bitty box has only a flat filesystem, not a hierarchical one....
flat-ASCII adj.
flat-file adj. A flattened representation of some database or tree or network structure as a single file from which the structure could implicitly be rebuilt, esp.
one in flat-ASCII form....
flatten vt. [common] To remove structural information, esp.
o filter something with an implicit tree structure into a simple sequence of leave...
flavor n. 1. [common] Variety, type, kind. "DDT commands come in two flavors.
These lights come in two flavors, big red ones and small green ones....
flavorful adj. Full of flavor (sense 2); esthetically pleasing.
See random and losing for antonyms. See also the entries for taste and elegant....

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