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• oid: [from `android'] suff. 1. Used as in mainstream English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance.
  Hackers will happily use it with all sorts of non-Greco/Latin stem words that wouldn't keep company with it in mainstream English....
• 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....
• ail-mail: n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.
  Sometimes written as the single word `SnailMail'....
• oid suff. [from Greek suffix -oid = `in the image of'] 1.
  Used as in mainstream slang English to indicate a poor imitation, a counterfeit, or some otherwise slightly bogus resemblance....
• bang: 1. n. Common spoken name for `!' (ASCII 0100001), especially when used in pronouncing a {bang path} in spoken hackish.
  In {elder days} this was considered a CMUish usage, with MIT and Stanford hackers preferring {excl} or {shriek}...
• download: vt. To transfer data or (esp.) code from a larger `host' system (esp.
  a {mainframe}) over a digital comm link to a smaller `client' system, esp....
• feep: /feep/ 1. n. The soft electronic `bell' sound of a display terminal (except for a VT-52)
  a beep (in fact, the microcomputer world seems to prefer {beep})....
• mumble interj. 1. Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out.
  Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion....
• ACK: /ak/ interj. 1. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0000110] Acknowledge.
  Used to register one's presence (compare mainstream *Yo!...