noun

• Acronym for "Friend Of A Friend." This term was not originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on urban folklore), but is more recognized in hacker culture than in the mainstream.

  by The Jargon File, Sep 28 2009.

noun

• Freely-redistributable software. As the culture of the Internet has displaced the older BBS world, this term has lost ground to both open source and free software; it has increasingly tended to be restricted to software distributed in binary rather than source-code form.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

notes

• At one time, freeware was a trademark of Andrew Fluegelman, the author of the well-known MS-DOS communication program PC-TALK III. It wasn't enforced after his mysterious disappearance and presumed death in 1984.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

adjective

• under the influence of drugs, often LSD ("acid").

  He was so fried last night.

  by Jared Meyer, MO, USA, Jul 01 1997.

• permanently impaired due to consuming too much LSD ("acid").

  He's done so much acid he's fried.

  by William A., Big Sky, MT, USA, Jan 01 2000.

• non-functioning, in reference to electronic devices.

  That phone is fried.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

intransitive verb

• to be under the influence of drugs.

  He was frying last night.

  by Anonymous, Jan 02 2003.

• to die by the electric chair.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.

transitive verb

• to make fun of.

  by Renee A., Sep 08 2004.

• to cause a piece of electronics to fail, usually in an unrecoverable way.

  Yeah, I spilled some Coke into my monitor and fried it.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009.

adjective

• acronym for "face the wall." In multiplayer online computer gaming, a player will use the instant messaging function of a game to notify other players that he/she is temporarily not playing the game. Going "FTW" involves facing one's in-game avatar towards a wall as a sign that the player should be treated as a non-combatant.

  He went FTW so he could get a soda.

  by Ray G., Seattle, WA, USA, Jan 12 2003.

interjection

• acronym for "For The Win". Used as after a noun to indicate one's enthusiastic support for that noun.

  Obama FTW!

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Apr 23 2009.

• to change numbers by a small amount.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 03 2009.

interjection

• a replacement word for fuck.

  fudge you!

  by Lisa R., NJ, USA, Jan 27 2000.

noun

• feces; POOP.

  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.

verb

• To solve a problem in an incomplete but marginally acceptable way.

  I didn't feel like doing it the Right Way, so I just fudged it. We can fix it in version 2.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 13 2009.

intransitive verb

• to be so intoxicated from illegal stimulants that one loses complete control over one's body.

  Oh man, she's geekin' out over there!

  by Tanya F., Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Feb 20 2003.

• To engage in a binge of nerdy activities.

  I spent all weekend geeking out.

  by Anonymous, Sep 28 2008.

• To temporarily enter techno-nerd mode while in a non-hackish context, for example at parties held near computer equipment. Especially used when you need to do or say something highly technical and don't have time to explain:

  Pardon me while I geek out for a moment.

  by The Jargon File, Feb 27 2009.