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• proprietary adj. 1. In marketroid-speak, superio
  implies a product imbued with exclusive magic by the unmatched brilliance of the company's own hardware or software designers....
• under the hood: [hot-rodder talk] prep. 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to {grok} it....
• well-connected: adj. Said of a computer installation, asserts that it has reliable email links with the network and/or that it relays a large fraction of available {USENET} newsgroups.
  `Well-known' can be almost synonymous, but also implies that the site's name is familiar to many (due perhaps to an archive service or active USENET users)....
• brain-damaged: 1. [generalization of `Honeywell Brain Damage' (HBD), a theoretical disease invented to explain certain utter cretinisms in Honeywell {{Multics}}] adj.
  Obviously wrong; {cretinous}; {demented}. There is an implication that the person responsible must have suffered brain damage, because he should have known better....
• clean: 1. adj. Used of hardware or software desig
  implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside....
• well-behaved: adj. 1. [primarily {{MS-DOS}}] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines and standards.
  Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics....
• under the hood adj. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it....
• cuspy: /kuhs'pee/ [WPI: from the {DEC} abbreviation CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.
  e., a utility program used by many people] adj. 1....
• marketroid: /mar'k*-troyd/ alt. `marketing slime', `marketeer', `marketing droid', `marketdroid'.
  . A member of a company's marketing department, esp....