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• prestidigitization /pres`t*-di`j*-ti:-zay'sh*n/ n. 1.
  The act of putting something into digital notation via sleight of hand....
• ark: [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n.
  1. A system failure. When a user's process bombed, the operator would get the message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!...
• DP: /D-P/ n. 1. Data Processing. Listed here because, according to hackers, use of the term marks one immediately as a {suit}.
  See {DPer}. 2. Common abbrev for {Dissociated Press}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• winnage: /win'*j/ n. The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something is winning.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• hackish: /hak'ish/ adj. (also {hackishness} n.) 1. Said of something that is or involves a hack.
  2. Of or pertaining to hackers or the hacker subculture....
• hose: 1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• hand-hacking: n. 1. The practice of translating {hot spot}s from an {HLL} into hand-tuned assembler, as opposed to trying to coerce the compiler into generating better code.
  Both the term and the practice are becoming uncommon....
• SAIL:: /sayl/, not /S-A-I-L/ n. 1. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab.
  An important site in the early development of LISP...
• frotz: /frots/ 1. n. See {frobnitz}. 2. `mumble frotz'
  An interjection of mildest disgust. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...