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• FOAF // n. [Usenet; common] Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'.
  The source of an unverified, possibly untrue story....
• furrfu: // [USENET] excl. Written-only equivalent of "Sheesh!
  it is, in fact, "sheesh" modified by {rot13}. Evolved in mid-1992 as a response to notably silly postings repeating urban myths on the USENET newsgroup alt....
• grilf: // n. Girl-friend. Like {newsfroup} and {filk}, a typo incarnated as a new word.
  Seems to have originated sometime in 1992. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• distribution: n. 1. A software source tree packaged for distributio
  but see {kit}. 2. A vague term encompassing mailing lists and USENET newsgroups (but not {BBS} {fora})...
• plonk: [USENET: possibly influenced by British slang `plonk' for cheap booze, or `plonker' for someone behaving stupidly] The sound a {newbie} makes as he falls to the bottom of a {kill file}.
  Used almost exclusively in the {newsgroup} talk....
• haque: /hak/ [USENET] n. Variant spelling of {hack}, used only for the noun form and connoting an {elegant} hack.
  hat is a {hack} in sense 2. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• MOTOS: /moh-tohs/ [acronym from the 1970 U.S. census forms via USENET
  Member Of The Opposite Sex] n. A potential or (less often) actual sex partner....
• lint: [from UNIX's `lint(1)', named for the bits of fluff it supposedly picks from programs] 1.
  vt. To examine a program closely for style, language usage, and portability problems, esp....
• UTSL: // [UNIX] n. On-line acronym for `Use the Source, Luke' (a pun on Obi-Wan Kenobi's "Use the Force, Luke!
  in "Star Wars") --- analogous to {RTFS} (sense 1), but more polite....