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• up adj. 1. Working, in order. "The down escalator is up.
  Oppose down. 2. `bring up': vt. To create a working version and start it....
• down: 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• down 1. adj. Not operating. "The up escalator is down" is considered a humorous thing to say (unless of course you were expecting to use it)
  and "The elevator is down" always means "The elevator isn't working" and never refers to what floor the elevator is on....
• gobble: vt. 1. To consume, usu. used with `up'. "The output spy gobbles characters out of a {tty} output buffer.
  2. To obtain, usu. used with `down'. "I guess I'll gobble down a copy of the documentation tomorrow....
• Greepers: people who walk up the down escalator to appear motionless.
• pathological: adj. 1. [scientific computation] Used of a data set that is grossly atypical of normal expected input, esp.
  one that exposes a weakness or bug in whatever algorithm one is using....
• boat anchor: n. 1. Like {doorstop} but more severe
  implies that the offending hardware is irreversibly dead or useless....
• batch: adj. 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the traditional technical definitions justify
  in particular, switches on a normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive command input are often referred to as `batch mode' switches....
• dead: adj. 1. Non-functional; {down}; {crash}ed. Especially used of hardware.
  2. At XEROX PARC, software that is working but not undergoing continued development and support....