transitive verb

• for a female to use a strap-on dildo to perform anal sex on a male. The term was a runner-up in a competition by readers of Dan Savage's Savage Love column to coin a term for this. The winning term was peg. Another runner-up was bob.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Feb 20 2010  (Edit definition)

verb

• To knock someone off an Internet or chat connection.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• A design decision to defer solving a problem, typically because one cannot define what is desirable sufficiently well to frame an algorithmic solution.

  No way to know what the right form to dump the graph in is - we'll punt that for now.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• To hand a tricky implementation problem off to some other section of the design.

  It's too hard to get the compiler to do that; let's punt to the runtime system.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• "computer."

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  by Veronica-Leigh, Charlotte, NC, USA, Jul 23 2002  (Edit definition)

verb

• To cite a relevant excerpt from some text.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

intransitive verb

• during a discussion about a particular topic, to focus on an unimportant detail.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 27 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• A technical subject that is known to be able to absorb infinite amounts of discussion time without more than an infinitesimal probability of arrival at a conclusion or consensus.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• a dilapidated place.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 27 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• any critical resource measured in units of area. For example, "chip real estate", the area available for logic on the surface of an integrated circuit; the amount of space in one's computer room; space on a crowded computer desktop.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

adverb

• When one's gods, fates, or other time commitments permit one to get to it (in other words, don't hold your breath).

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• Supposed to be available (or fixed, or cheap, or whatever) real soon now according to somebody, but the speaker is quite skeptical.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "rolling on floor laughing". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
  
  Also ROTFL ("rolling on the floor laughing.")

  Person A: <something funny>
  
  Person B: ROFL!

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  by Tensore @., Feb 04 2005  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "rolling on floor laughing my ass off". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)

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  by lucy, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 26 1998  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "rolling on the floor laughing". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
  
  Also ROFL ("rolling on floor laughing.")

  Person A: <something funny>
  
  Person B: ROTFL!

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

• "Read the fucking manual." A statement, usu. in response to a technical question in an online discussion forum or email list, implying that the question asked was trivial and the answer readily available or easy to find without having to ask the community.

  by Morgan D., Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 30 2003  (Edit definition)

adjective

• acronym for "read the fucking manual". As an adjective: complicated, but with a readily available solution.

  Unfortunately, that's a real RTFM issue.

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  by John O., Algonquin, IL, USA, Oct 07 2004  (Edit definition)

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  by John O., Algonquin, IL, USA, Oct 07 2004  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "read the manual". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• person who engages in computer security breaching through use of widely available prepackaged exploiting utilities, for recreational purposes and without significant low-level knowledge of computer security.

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  by Morgan D., Seattle, WA, USA, Aug 30 2003  (Edit definition)

noun

• Synonym of gender mender.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "safe for work."

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

noun

• Freely available software for which the author requests some payment, usually in the accompanying documentation files or in an announcement made by the software itself. Such payment may or may not buy additional support or functionality.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)