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- movie, film, video
- See also recreation, fun, and humor
- See also TV, television
- radio, stereo
- remote control
- telephone, phone
- TV, television
- See also recreation, fun, and humor
- See also movie, film, video
- See also to make a copy, pirate, bootleg
- See also work (related to)
C
cracker
- Also a racial slur. For more details see here.
noun
- One who breaks the security on a system.
More words meaning: computer slang
origin
- Coined circa 1985 by hackers (the good kind - people who love to tinker) in defense against journalistic misuse of the word "hacker" to mean someone who breaks into computers.
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- cracker: cheese and crackers got all muddy – crackered down – (show 2 more)
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craplet
noun
- A worthless applet (small program.) Also crapplet.
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crash 
intransitive verb
- to sleep.
I crashed over at his house last night.
I was so tired after work I just crashed.
More words meaning: to sleep
noun
- A sudden, usually drastic failure.
My computer suffered a pretty bad crash.
More words meaning: a mistake, bad idea, wrong, inappropriate
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transitive verb
- to arrive unexpectedly and uninvited, esp. to a social function such as a party or ceremony. Origin: perhaps derived from a vehicular accident ("crash") which is both unexpected and unwanted.
I hate people who crash my party
More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude
by Ryan L., Washington, DC, USA, Oct 14 1998 (Edit definition)
- To fail suddenly.
Has the system just crashed?
Something crashed the OS!
More words meaning: computer slang
More words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err
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- crash: crash and burn – crash out
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crippleware
noun
- Software that has some important functionality deliberately removed, so as to entice potential users to pay for a working version.
More words meaning: computer slang
- Hardware deliberately crippled, which can be upgraded to a more expensive model by a trivial change (e.g., cutting a jumper).
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cruft
noun
- Excess; superfluous junk; used esp. of redundant or superseded code.
- The results of shoddy construction.
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crufty
adjective
- Poorly built, possibly over-complex.
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CYA
- acronym for "cover your ass."
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
- "see ya". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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days
noun
- a long time. Generally used either as an exaggeration (that is, "days" is used to express minutes or hours) or as an understatement (used to express months or years). See also minute.
Exaggeration: We got lost and drove for days.
Understatement: I haven't heard this song in days.
More words meaning: a period of time
by Fitz, CA, USA, Nov 09 1997 (Edit definition)
- The U.S. soap opera Days of Our Lives.
Did you see Days yesterday?
More words meaning: TV, television
by Laura, USA, Jan 04 2000 (Edit definition)
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- day: 0 day – a rainy day – (show 13 more)
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dehose
transitive verb
- To clear a hosed condition.
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DGAF
- acronym for "don't give a fuck."
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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die horribly
verb
- to fail in a grand way.
The converter choked on an FF in its input and died horribly
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- die: die – eat shit and die – (show 3 more)
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digits
noun
- phone number.
Did you get his digits?
More words meaning: phone number
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001 (Edit definition)
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DILLIGAS
- acronym for "do I look like I give a shit."
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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dinky
adjective
- underpowered.
GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.
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- small.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 26 2009 (Edit definition)
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- dinky: dipping a dinky
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dog
noun
- a friend. Also dawg.
What's up, dog?
He's my dog.
More words meaning: friend, friends
by David Capalungan, Yakima, WA, USA, Sep 14 1997 (Edit definition)
- a method of addressing a person, similar to man and dude. Also spelled dawg.
Hey dog, could you hand me a napkin?
More words meaning: dude, person of unspecified gender
by Daylene, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Jun 09 1998 (Edit definition)
- telephone. From Cockney rhyming slang "dog and bone." Current in London's financial services industry.
Let's get Goldman Sachs on the dog.
More words meaning: telephone, phone
by Joshua R., Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK, Oct 27 1999 (Edit definition)
- an unattractive person.
They're such a dog!
More words meaning: unattractive, ugly person (either gender)
- a hotdog.
More words meaning: food
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 02 2009 (Edit definition)
- something of poor quality or a poor performer.
More words meaning: something of poor quality, bad, sucks
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 02 2009 (Edit definition)
verb
- to relentless follow.
Detective Davis dogged the kidnappers until he found their hideout.
More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude
by John v., Washington, DC, USA, Feb 05 1999 (Edit definition)
- to constantly follow, like an overly loyal pet.
More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude
by John v., Washington, DC, USA, Feb 05 1999 (Edit definition)
- to criticize or annoy. Also dog on.
Quit dogging me.
Quit dogging on me.
More words meaning: to annoy, interfere, intrude
More words meaning: to insult, complain, criticize
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- dog: be dog meat – big dog – (show 55 more)
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doorstop
noun
- equipment that is non-functional and halfway expected to remain so, especially obsolete equipment kept around for political reasons or ostensibly as a backup.
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drink the Kool-Aid
verb
- When someone who should know better succumbs to marketing influences and actually begins to believe the propaganda being dished out by a vendor.
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origin
- The term originates in the suicide of 914 followers of Jim Jones's People's Temple cult in Guyana in 1978 (there are also resonances with Ken Kesey's Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests from the 1960s).
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- kool: Kool-Aid
- aid: band-aid – Kool-Aid
- drink: drink – drink from the fire hose – (show 6 more)
- the: 3 sheets to the wind – 411, the – (show 871 more)
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Easter egg
noun
- A feature of a computer program that only presents itself in response to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes, intended as a joke or to display program credits.
More words meaning: computer slang
notes
- One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple of OSes caused them to respond to the command "make love" with "not war?". Many personal computers have much more elaborate eggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names, political exhortations, snatches of music, and (in one case) graphics images of the entire development team.
origin
- from the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed in the U.S. and many parts of Europe.
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- egg: egg – egg (one) on – (show 3 more)
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egosurf
intransitive verb
- To search the net for your name or links to your web pages.
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ego surf
verb
- to surf the World Wide Web looking for references to one's name, via search engines.
I spend way too much time at work ego surfing.
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jun 17 2007 (Edit definition)
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- ego: ego trip
- surf: car surf – channel surf – (show 5 more)
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