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• grovel vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress.
  Often used transitively with `over' or `through'....
• illy walk: [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] vi.
  1. A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task....
• illy walk vi. [from Monty Python's Flying Circus] 1.
  A ridiculous procedure required to accomplish a task....
• grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] 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...
• buzz: vi. 1. Of a program, to run with no indication of progress and perhaps without guarantee of ever finishing
  esp. said of programs thought to be executing tight loops of code....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• wango: /wang'goh/ n. Random bit-level {grovel}ling going on in a system during some unspecified operation.
  Often used in combination with {mumble}. For example...
• chug: vi. To run slowly; to {grind} or {grovel}. "The disk is chugging like crazy.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• 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....