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• depeditate: /dee-ped'*-tayt/ [by (faulty) analogy with `decapitate'] vt.
  Humorously, to cut off the feet of. When one is using some computer-aided typesetting tools, careless placement of text blocks within a page or above a rule can result in chopped-off letter descenders....
• dehose: /dee-hohz/ vt. To clear a {hosed} condition. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
  when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in "canned from the {{console}}"....
• walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
  Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
• boa: [IBM] n. Any one of the fat cables that lurk under the floor in a {dinosaur pen}.
  Possibly so called because they display a ferocious life of their own when you try to lay them straight and flat after they have been coiled for some time....
• fascist: adj. 1. Said of a computer system with excessive or annoying security barriers, usage limits, or access policies.
  The implication is that said policies are preventing hackers from getting interesting work done....
• drop-ins: [prob. by analogy with {drop-outs}] n. Spurious characters appearing on a terminal or console as a result of line noise or a system malfunction of some sort.
  Esp. used when these are interspersed with one's own typed input....
• check: n. A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than software-induced traps.
  E.g., a `parity check' is the result of a hardware-detected parity error....
• background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided attentio
  and `to background' something means to relegate it to a lower priority....