Browsing page 43 of words meaning computer slang (593 words total)

noun

• Pornography.
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  Last edited on Aug 11 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

verb - transitive

• to add something to the beginning; "prefix". The computing variant of "append".

  To get it to display in monospace font, prepend four spaces to every line.

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  Last edited on Nov 11 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

noun

• "porn", i.e. pornography.

  My computer crashed and I lost all my pron.

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  Last edited on Nov 09 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.

verb

• To make a mistake or fail, esp. when playing a game.
  
  I totally punted that last play.

  Last edited on Feb 16 2015. Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 16 2015.

• to violently kick someone a far distance or across a large space. Somewhat like kicking an American football or rugby ball.

  The kid walking behind me while walking home was dragging his feet loudly, this made me want to punt him across the nearest park.

  Last edited on Apr 26 2017. Submitted by Anonymous on Apr 26 2017.

verb - ambitransitive

• to delay solving a problem or implementing a feature until later.

  There's not enough time to fix this bug before we release. We'll have to punt it to the next version.

  We may have to punt fixing the baby's crib until tomorrow due to circumstances beyond our control.

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  Last edited on May 12 2013. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• to hand off responsibility for fulfilling a work-item to another person, group, portion of a computer system, etc.

  We're not going to get that kind of low-level application compatibility support right now, so we'll have to punt to the runtime system.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

verb - transitive

• to kick someone off of a network connection. For example: a chat room.

  Last edited on Nov 15 2011. Submitted by WalterGR (via TheJargonFile) on Aug 14 2009.

• 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.
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  Last edited on Feb 20 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 20 2010.