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Definition of banhammer
banhammer
noun
- a metaphorical hammer that is wielded by operators or moderators when banning one or more users from an online community. Also "ban hammer".
Citation from comment policy, Destructoid website blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Feb 02 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 02 2010.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: used to indicate laughter in text-based communication. | |
| Definitions include: a comment that usually serves no other purpose above telling listeners (or more often: readers) that the speaker (writer) is in the technological "in group". | |
| Definitions include: to hack, with the result being something quickly and sloppily created, or modified to solve a particular problem. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "to my knowledge". | |
| Definitions include: the words and phrases that are (mostly) unique to communication on the world wide web. | |
| Definitions include: used with a subject matter to refer to a person with deep, expert knowledge of that subject matter. | |
| Definitions include: any email that is unpleasant in tone or content. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "I am not a medical doctor". | |
| Definitions include: the typical amount of computing resources taken up by a computer program. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "in my experience". | |
| Definitions include: "just my opinion". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "First World problem" or "First World problems". | |
| Definitions include: methamphetamine. | |
| Definitions include: software that was purchased or written, but never used. | |
| Definitions include: "Oh my God." | |
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| Definitions include: a penis. | |
| Definitions include: extremely unintelligent. | |
| Definitions include: to interrogate. | |
| Definitions include: to be very ugly. | |
| Definitions include: an inbred person. | |
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