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• grind vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
  This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare...
• prettyprint: /prit'ee-print/ (alt. `pretty-print') v.
  1. To generate `pretty' human-readable output from a {hairy} internal representatio...
• grind crank: n. A mythical accessory to a terminal.
  A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
• grovel: vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress.
  Often used transitively with `over' or `through'....
• grind crank n. // A mythical accessory to a terminal.
  A crank on the side of a monitor, which when operated makes a zizzing noise and causes the computer to run faster....
• chug: vi. To run slowly; to {grind} or {grovel}. "The disk is chugging like crazy.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• grovel vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress.
  Often used transitively with `over' or `through'....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• cruncha cruncha cruncha: /kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch* kruhn'ch*/ interj.
  An encouragement sometimes muttered to a machine bogged down in a serious {grovel}....