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• oach vt. [Bell Labs] To destroy, esp. of a data structure.
  Hardware gets toasted or fried, software gets roached....
• fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• 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"....
• 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}....
• fry 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• cag: vt. To destroy the data on a disk, either by corrupting the filesystem or by causing media damage.
  That last power hit scagged the system disk." Compare {scrog}, {roach}....
• oast: 1. n. Any completely inoperable system or component, esp.
  one that has just crashed and burned: "Uh, oh ....
• walk: n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in {core}.
  See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ilicon: n. Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems (compare {iron}).
  Contrasted with software. See also {sandbender}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...