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Mangle: Vt. Used Similarly To {mung} Or {scribble}, But More Violent In Its Connotatio
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:mangle: vt. Used similarly to {mung} or {scribble}, but more violent
in its connotations; something that is mangled has been
irreversibly and totally trashed.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
mangle vt. 1. Used similarly to mung or scribble, but more violent in its connotatio
omething that is mangled has been irreversibly and totally trashed....
ash: vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
The most common of the family of near-synonyms including {mung}, {mangle}, and {scribble}....
cribble: n. To modify a data structure in a random and unintentionally destructive way.
Bletch! Somebody's disk-compactor program went berserk and scribbled on the i-node table....
mung: /muhng/ [in 1960 at MIT, `Mash Until No Good'
ometime after that the derivation from the {{recursive acronym}} `Mung Until No Good' became standard] vt....
omp on: vt. To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually automatically.
All the work I did this weekend got stomped on last night by the nightly server script....
clobber: vt. To overwrite, usually unintentionally
I walked off the end of the array and clobbered the stack....
ash vt. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure).
The most common of the family of near-synonyms including mung, mangle, and scribble....
gunch: /guhnch/ [TMRC] vt. To push, prod, or poke at a device that has almost (but not quite) produced the desired result.
Implies a threat to {mung}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
crog: /skrog/ [Bell Labs] vt. To damage, trash, or corrupt a data structure.
The list header got scrogged." Also reported as `skrog', and ascribed to the comic strip "The Wizard of Id"....