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• manged /mahnjd/ n. [probably from the French `manger' or Italian `mangiare', to ea
  perhaps influenced by English `mange', `mangy'] adj....
• New Jersey: [primarily Stanford/Silicon Valley] adj.
  Brain-damaged or of poor design. This refers to the allegedly wretched quality of such software as C, C++, and UNIX (which originated at Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey)....
• mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent in its connotatio
  omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
• clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
  I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
• VAXen: /vak'sn/ [from `oxen', perhaps influenced by `vixen'] n.
  (alt. `vaxen') The plural canonically used among hackers for the DEC VAX computers....
• frotzed: /frotst/ adj. {down} because of hardware problems.
  Compare {fried}. A machine that is merely frotzed may be fixable without replacing parts, but a fried machine is more seriously damaged....
• defined as: adj. In the role of, usually in an organization-chart sense.
  Pete is currently defined as bug prioritizer." Compare {logical}....
• yellow wire: [IBM] n. Repair wires used when connectors (especially ribbon connectors) got broken due to some schlemiel pinching them
  or to reconnect cut traces after the FE mistakenly cut one....
• ignal-to-noise ratio: [from analog electronics] n.
  Used by hackers in a generalization of its technical meaning....