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• widget n. 1. A meta-thing. Used to stand for a real object in didactic examples (especially database tutorials).
  Legend has it that the original widgets were holders for buggy whips....
• monty: /mon'tee/ [US Geological Survey] n. A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• WIMP environment: n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as {X} or the Macintosh interface, esp.
  as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility....
• frobnitz: /frob'nits/, plural `frobnitzem' /frob'nit-zm/ or `frobni' /frob'ni
  / [TMRC] n. An unspecified physical object, a widget....
• PM: /P-M/ 1. v. (from `preventive maintenance') To bring down a machine for inspection or test purposes.
  See {provocative maintenance}; see also {scratch monkey}....
• WIMP environment n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as X or the Macintosh interface, esp.
  as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility....
• monty /mon'tee/ n. 1. [US Geological Survey] A program with a ludicrously complex user interface written to perform extremely trivial tasks.
  An example would be a menu-driven, button clicking, pulldown, pop-up windows program for listing directories....
• blivet: /bliv'*t/ [allegedly from a World War II military term meaning "ten pounds of manure in a five-pound bag"] n.
  1. An intractable problem. 2. A crucial piece of hardware that can't be fixed or replaced if it breaks....
• crew: [MIT] n. A {lose}, usually in software. Especially used for user-visible misbehavior caused by a bug or misfeature.
  This use has become quite widespread outside MIT. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...