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• gronk /gronk/ vt. [popularized by Johnny Hart's comic strip "B.
  C." but the word apparently predates that] 1. To clear the state of a wedged device and restart it....
• wedged adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• ate: n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?
  It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally {wedged} state....
• wedged: adj. 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help.
  This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning....
• frob: /frob/ 1. n. [MIT] The {TMRC} definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnio
  by metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing...
• gronk out: vi. To cease functioning. Of people, to go home and go to sleep.
  I guess I'll gronk out now; see you all tomorrow." -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• ate n. 1. Condition, situation. "What's the state of your latest hack?
  It's winning away." "The system tried to read and write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged state....
• gonk: /gonk/ vt.,n. 1. To prevaricate or to embellish the truth beyond any reasonable recognition.
  In German the term is (mythically) `gonken'; in Spanish the verb becomes `gonkar'....
• crash: 1. n. A sudden, usually drastic failure. Most often said of the {system} (q.
  v., sense 1), esp. of magnetic disk drives (the term originally described what happened when the air gap of a hard disk collapses)....