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Creep: V. To Advance, Grow, Or Multiply Inexorably.
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:creep: v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably. In hackish usage
this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the
creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
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creep v. To advance, grow, or multiply inexorably.
In hackish usage this verb has overtones of menace and silliness, evoking the creeping horrors of low-budget monster movies....
udlycaps: /stuhd'lee-kaps/ n. A hackish form of silliness similar to {BiCapitalization} for trademarks, but applied randomly and to arbitrary text rather than to trademarks.
ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
hammer: vt. Commonwealth hackish syn. for {bang on}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
glark: /glark/ vt. To figure something out from context.
The System III manuals are pretty poor, but you can generally glark the meaning from context....
die: v. Syn. {crash}. Unlike {crash}, which is used primarily of hardware, this verb is used of both hardware and software.
See also {go flatline}, {casters-up mode}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
DPB: /d*-pib'/ [from the PDP-10 instruction set] vt.
To plop something down in the middle. Usage: silly....
krog: v. Syn. {scrog}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
feature creep n. [common] The result of creeping featurism, as in "Emacs has a bad case of feature creep".
prime time: [from TV programming] n. Normal high-usage hours on a timesharing system
he day shift. Avoidance of prime time was traditionally given as a major reason for {night mode} hacking....