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• choke v. 1. [common] To reject input, often ungracefully.
  NULs make System V's lpr(1) choke." "I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp(1) choked on all those #defines....
• barf: /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
  interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon"....
• barf /barf/ n.,v. [common; from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
  interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Valspeak "gag me with a spoon"....
• gag: vi. Equivalent to {choke}, but connotes more disgust.
  Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged....
• Purple Book: n. 1. The "System V Interface Definition".
  The covers of the first editions were an amazingly nauseating shade of off-lavender....
• ap: 1. n. A program interrupt, usually an interrupt caused by some exceptional situation in the user program.
  In most cases, the OS performs some action, then returns control to the program....
• ad-hockery: /ad-hok'*r-ee/ [Purdue] n. 1. Gratuitous assumptions made inside certain programs, esp.
  expert systems, which lead to the appearance of semi-intelligent behavior but are in fact entirely arbitrary....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• gag vi. Equivalent to choke, but connotes more disgust.
  Hey, this is FORTRAN code. No wonder the C compiler gagged." See also barf....