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• lexiphage: /lek'si-fayj`/ n. A notorious word {chomper} on ITS.
  See {bagbiter}. This program would draw on a selected victim's bitmapped terminal the words "THE BAG" in ornate letters, followed a pair of jaws biting pieces of it off....
• bagbiter: /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner.
  This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters!...
• chomper: n. Someone or something that is chomping; a loser.
  See {loser}, {bagbiter}, {chomp}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• bagbiter /bag'bi:t-*r/ n. 1. Something, such as a program or a computer, that fails to work, or works in a remarkably clumsy manner.
  This text editor won't let me make a file with a line longer than 80 characters!...
• cookie monster: [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] n.
  Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on a batch {mainframe}), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
• Bagbiter: 1. n.; Equipment or program that fails, usually intermittently.
  2. adj.: Failing hardware or software. "This bagbiting system won't let me get out of spacewar....
• chomp: vi. To {lose}; specifically, to chew on something of which more was bitten off than one can.
  Probably related to gnashing of teeth. See {bagbiter}....