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• at belt n. A cable tie, esp. the sawtoothed, self-locking plastic kind that you can remove only by cutting (as opposed to a random twist of wire or a twist tie or one of those humongous metal clip frobs).
  Small cable ties are `mouse belts'....
• hamster: n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster {happily} spinning its exercise wheel....
• dike: vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• hamster n. 1. [Fairchild] A particularly slick little piece of code that does one thing well
  a small, self-contained hack. The image is of a hamster happily spinning its exercise wheel....
• dike vt. To remove or disable a portion of something, as a wire from a computer or a subroutine from a program.
  A standard slogan is "When in doubt, dike it out"....
• copper: n. Conventional electron-carrying network cable with a core conductor of copper -- or aluminum!
  Opposed to {light pipe} or, say, a short-range microwave link. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• mouse belt n. See rat belt.
• Marge: Are you interesting in that motorized tie rack, Principal Skinner?
  [turns it on] Skinner: Hmm. It's awfully loud. Marge...
• light pipe: n. Fiber optic cable. Oppose {copper}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary