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• meeces /mees'*z/ n. [TMRC] Occasional furry visitors who are not urchins.
  [That is, mice. This may no longer be in live use...
• gumby: /guhm'bee/ [from a class of Monty Python characters, poss.
  with some influence from the 1960s claymation character] n....
• TMRCie: /tmerk'ee/, [MIT] n. A denizen of {TMRC}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• BASIC: [acronym, from Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code] n.
  A programming language, originally designed for Dartmouth's experimental timesharing system in the early 1960s, which has since become the leading cause of brain-damage in proto-hackers....
• Christmas tree packet: n. A packet with every single option set for whatever protocol is in use.
  See {kamikaze packet}, {Chernobyl packet}. (The term doubtless derives from a fanciful image of each little option bit being represented by a different-colored light bulb, all turned on....
• ampoline: n. An incredibly {hairy} technique, found in some {HLL} and program-overlay implementations (e.
  g., on the Macintosh), that involves on-the-fly generation of small executable (and, likely as not, self-modifying) code objects to do indirection between code sections....
• foo /foo/ 1. interj. Term of disgust. 2. [very common] Used very generally as a sample name for absolutely anything, esp.
  programs and files (esp. scratch files). 3. First on the standard list of metasyntactic variables used in syntax examples....
• xor: /X'or/, /kzor/ conj. Exclusive or. `A xor B' means `A or B, but not both'.
  I want to get cherry pie xor a banana split." This derives from the technical use of the term as a function on truth-values that is true if exactly one of its two arguments is true....
• TMRC /tmerk'/ n. The Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT, one of the wellsprings of hacker culture.
  The 1959 "Dictionary of the TMRC Language" compiled by Peter Samson included several terms that became basics of the hackish vocabulary (see esp....