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Definition of grepped it
grep
verb - ambitransitive
- in a non-computing context, to search.
Could you grep the menu for something vegan while I go to the bathroom?
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Last edited on May 01 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
- in a computing context, to search "manually" - i.e. by looking rather than using a computer program specifically intended for searching.
I like GUIs because I can grep them visually for what I'm looking for.
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Last edited on Nov 10 2011. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 10 2011.
origin
- From the name of a Unix utility used to scan files in search of particular content. ("Grep" itself means "global regular expression print".)
Last edited on May 01 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.
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| Definitions include: acronym for "be back later". | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "no fucking idea". | |
| Definitions include: the real world, as opposed to the "virtual" world of computers, also known as cyberspace. | |
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| Definitions include: misspelling of Google. | |
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| Definitions include: to use a search engine to get information about a current or past love interest. | |
| Definitions include: to do an internet search on someone or something. | |
| Definitions include: to figure out something unknown. | |
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| Definitions include: to be in charge. | |
| Definitions include: when a person normally speaks in a certain manner but then switches to the colloquial style with whom he or she is currently conversing. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
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| Definitions include: a comical mocking expression in the military and police when a trainee seems hopeless at hand to hand fighting. | |
| Definitions include: to masturbate. | |
| Definitions include: Blowing one's nose by holding the other nostril with a finger. | |
| Definitions include: an uncertain thing. | |
| Definitions include: an expression of excitement or joy, used mostly by computer aficionados. | |
| Definitions include: to make something gross. |
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