Definition of swap out
swap out 
verb - transitive
- Details are available in the entry for swap. See also page out.
- See more words with the same meaning: computer slang.
Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Sep 28 2009.
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Other terms relating to 'computer slang': | |
| Definitions include: to cause a software or hardware bug to become evident. | |
| Definitions include: a type of shareware that interrupts use of the software to display a message asking the user to "register" the software (i.e. pay for it.) | |
| Definitions include: without any clothing covering the torso. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "no good". | |
| Definitions include: see ASLR. | |
| Definitions include: a website with little or no content, consisting of mostly (or entirely) links to other websites. | |
| Definitions include: a cable connector device with either two male or two female connectors on it, used to connect mismatched cables. | |
| Definitions include: peeping tom. | |
| Definitions include: the typical amount of computing resources taken up by a computer program. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "if I recall correctly." | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "talk amongst yourselves". | |
| Definitions include: "elite." | |
| Definitions include: "never mind". | |
| Definitions include: a needle used to inject drugs. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "on my God, what the fuck." | |
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Other terms relating to 'out': | |
| Definitions include: the feeling when you defecate huge and your anus is stretched. | |
| Definitions include: fatigued after amphetamine use. | |
| Definitions include: very; really; extremely. | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: Slang for having a shit. | |
| Definitions include: to get someone out of jail by posting bail. | |
| Definitions include: to tell on someone; "snitch". | |
| Definitions include: a session of getting baked (i.e. high from marijuana.) | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: also balls to the wall. | |
| Definitions include: to hit or cause bodily injury. | |
| Definitions include: to study to excess or to be over-competitive in school-work. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: to beat severely. | |
| Definitions include: to violently beat. | |
Other terms relating to 'swap': | |
| Definitions include: In computer speak, to move information from fast-access memory to a slower storage device, e.g. disk ("swap out") or the other way around ("swap in.") This often refers to loading data from disk into memory as needed (swapping in) and writing the data back to disk when it is no longer needed (swapping out.) | |
| Definitions include: Details are available in the entry for swap. | |
| Definitions include: to kiss. | |
| Definitions include: temporary storage space used then moving or reconfiguring a room. | |
| Definitions include: making out | |
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