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FOAF // n. [Usenet; common] Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'.
The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story....
FOD /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other people.
From MUDs where the...
fold case v. See smash case. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case.
It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data pro...
followup n. [common] On Usenet, a posting generated in response to another posting (as opposed to a reply, which goes by email rather than being broadcast).
Followups include the ID of th...
fontology n. [XEROX PARC] The body of knowledge dealing with the construction and use of new fonts (e.
g., for window systems and typesetting software). It has been said that fontology rec...
foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standa...
foobar n. [very common] Another widely used metasyntactic variable
ee foo for etymology....
fool n. As used by hackers, specifically describes a person who habitually reasons from obviously or demonstrably incorrect premises and cannot be persuaded by evidence to do otherwise
it i...
fool file n. [Usenet] A notional repository of all the most dramatically and abysmally stupid utterances ever.
An entire subgenre of sig blocks consists of the header "From the fool file...
Foonly n. 1. The PDP-10 successor that was to have been built by the Super Foonly project at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory along with a new operating system.
(The name i...

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