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• Ceremonial Chemicals: Most hackers don't smoke tobacco
  and use alcohol in moderation if at all (though there is a visible contingent of exotic-beer fanciers, and a few hackers are serious oenophiles)....
• iffy: [University of Lowell, Massachusetts.] n. 3.
  5-inch {microfloppies}, so called because their jackets are more rigid than those of the 5....
• Politics: Vaguely left of center, except for the strong libertarian contingent which rejects conventional left-right politics entirely.
  The only safe generalization is that hackers tend to be rather anti-authoritaria...
• Sexual Habits: Hackerdom easily tolerates a much wider range of sexual and lifestyle variation than the mainstream culture.
  It includes a relatively large gay and bisexual contingent....
• larval stage: n. Describes a period of monomaniacal concentration on coding apparently passed through by all fledgling hackers.
  Common symptoms include the perpetration of more than one 36-hour {hacking run} in a given week...
• berklix: /berk'liks/ n.,adj. [contraction of `Berkeley UNIX'] See {BSD}.
  Not used at Berkeley itself. May be more common among {suit}s attempting to sound like cognoscenti than among hackers, who usually just say `BSD'....
• LPT: /L-P-T/ or /lip'it/ or /lip-it'/ n. Line printer, of course.
  Rare under UNIX, more common among hackers who grew up with ITS, MS-DOS, CP/M and other operating systems that were strongly influenced by early DEC conventions....
• codes: [scientific computing] n. Programs. This usage is common in people who hack supercumputers and heavy-duty {number-crunching}
  are to unknown elsewhere (if you say "codes" to hackers outside scientific computing, their first association is likely to be "and cyphers")....
• pin: vi. Equivalent to {buzz}. More common among C and UNIX programmers.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...