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flippy /flip'ee/ n.
flood v. [common; IRC] To dump large amounts of text onto an IRC channel.
flowchart n. [techspeak] An archaic form of visual control-flow specification employing arrows and `speech balloons' of various shapes.
Hackers never use flowcharts, consider them extreme...
flower key n. [Mac users] See feature key.
flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
All that nonsense has been flushed." 2....
flypage /fli:'payj/ n. (alt. `fly page') A banner, sense 1.
Flyspeck 3 n. Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable (by analogy with names like `Helvetica 10' for 10-point Helvetica).
Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Fl...
flytrap n. [rare] See firewall machine.
FM /F-M/ n. 1. [common] Not `Frequency Modulation' but rather an abbreviation for `Fucking Manual', the back-formation from RTFM.
Used to refer to the manual itself in the RTFM. "Have you...
fnord n. [from the "Illuminatus Trilogy"] 1. A word used in email and news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor, esp.
in connection with Discordianism and elaborate...

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