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GPV /G-P-V/ n. Abbrev. for General Public Virus in widespread use.
grault /grawlt/ n. Yet another metasyntactic variable, invented by Mike Gallaher and propagated by GOSMACS documentation.
See corge....
gray goo n. A hypothetical substance composed of sagans of sub-micron-sized self-replicating robots programmed to make copies of themselves out of whatever is available.
The image that go...
Great Renaming n. The flag day in 1987 on which all of the non-local groups on the Usenet had their names changed from the net.
format to the current multiple-hierarchies scheme. Used e...
Great Runes n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.
Some archaic operating systems still emit these....
Great Worm n. The 1988 Internet worm perpetrated by RTM.
This is a play on Tolkien (compare elvish, elder days)....
great-wall vi.,n. [from SF fandom] A mass expedition to an oriental restaurant, esp.
one where food is served family-style and shared....
Green Book n. 1. One of the three standard PostScript reference
PostScript Language Program Design", bylined `Adobe Systems' (Addison-Wesley, 1988...
green bytes n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file ...
green card n. [after the "IBM System/360 Reference Data" card] A summary of an assembly language, even if the color is not green and not a card.
Less frequently used now because of the de...

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