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funny money n. 1. Notional `dollar' units of computing time and/or storage handed to students at the beginning of a computer course
also called `play money' or `purple money' (in implici...
furrfu // excl. [Usenet] Written-only equivalent of "Sheesh!
it is, in fact, "sheesh" modified by rot13....
fuzzball n.
G pref.,suff. [SI] See quantifiers.
g-file n.
gabriel /gay'bree-*l/ n. [for Dick Gabriel, SAIL LISP hacker and volleyball fanatic] An unnecessary (in the opinion of the opponent) stalling tactic, e.
g., tying one's shoelaces or combing...
gag vi. Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust.
Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf....
gang bang n. The use of large numbers of loosely coupled programmers in an attempt to wedge a great many features into a product in a short time.
Though there have been memorable gang ba...
garbage collect vi. (also `garbage collection', n.) See GC.
garply /gar'plee/ n. [Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo)
once popular among SAIL hackers....

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