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• hose 1. vt. [common] To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance.
  That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system....
• washing machine: n. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs --- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• washing machine n. 1. Old-style 14-inch hard disks in floor-standing cabinets.
  So called because of the size of the cabinet and the `top-loading' access to the media packs -- and, of course, they were always set on `spin cycle'....
• interrupt: 1. [techspeak] n. On a computer, an event that interrupts normal processing and temporarily diverts flow-of-control through an "interrupt handler" routine.
  See also {trap}. 2. interj. A request for attention from a hacker....
• magic cookie: [UNIX] n. 1. Something passed between routines or programs that enables the receiver to perform some operatio
  a capability ticket or opaque identifier. Especially used of small data objects that contain data encoded in a strange or intrinsically machine-dependent way....
• monstrosity: 1. n. A ridiculously {elephantine} program or system, esp.
  one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2....
• fry: 1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware failures.
  More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never said of software, only of hardware and humans....
• walk: n.,vt. Traversal of a data structure, especially an array or linked-list data structure in {core}.
  See also {codewalker}, {silly walk}, {clobber}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....