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- See also recreation, fun, and humor
- See also TV, television
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- remote control
- telephone, phone
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- unauthorized copy, pirated, bootleg
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C
crash 
intransitive verb
- to sleep.
I crashed over at his house last night.
I was so tired after work I just crashed.
by Anonymous, Oct 01 2001.
noun
- A sudden, usually drastic failure.
My computer suffered a pretty bad crash.
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
by Ryan L., Washington, DC, USA, Oct 14 1998.
- To fail suddenly.
Has the system just crashed?
Something crashed the OS!
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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.
- 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 of redundant or superseded code.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."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
- "see ya". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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dehose
transitive verb
- To clear a hosed condition.
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DGAF
- acronym for "don't give a fuck."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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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?
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Oct 01 2001.
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DILLIGAS
- acronym for "do I look like I give a shit."
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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dinky
adjective
- underpowered.
GNUMACS will never work on that dink machine.
- small.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 26 2009.
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- dinky: dipping a dinky
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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.
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.
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.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Jun 17 2007.
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- ego: ego trip
- surf: car surf – channel surf – (show 5 more)
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eye candy
noun
- A person of the oppsite sex, that is very atrractive. Pretty much a person who is easy on the eyes.
That guy was complete eye candy.
by Gin, Canada, May 18 2002.
- an extremely attractive person, pleasant to look at.
The city is a great place for eye candy.
by Rosie, Milbrae St, San Diego, CA 92113, USA, Jun 02 2002.
- a girl apealing to the eyes.
That girl is total eyecandy!
by Jenny, Fairfax, VA, USA, Feb 28 2003.
- good looking, but air-headed
Sarah is eye candy.
by Rafaela M., San Diego, CA, USA, May 12 2003.
- a person who is very attractive but otherwise meaningless to you.
by Michaela S., Jul 18 2005.
- non-functional but pretty computer graphics.
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- candy: arm candy – candy – (show 10 more)
- eye: apple of my eye – apple of (one's) eye – (show 25 more)
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F2F
- acronym for "face to face". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
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face time
noun
- the potential of facilitating one's meeting of other people.
The steps outside the mall have great face time.
by Anonymous, Ithaca, NY, USA, Nov 05 1997.
- a period of time during which one is talking with someone face-to-face (as opposed to over the phone, via e-mail, etc.)
I had to go home to get some face time with the wife.
by Anonymous, Ithaca, NY, USA, Nov 05 1997.
verb
- to have a pending criminal charge.
Three border agents are facing time.
by E W., El Granada, California, USA, Feb 04 2005.
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- time: bean time – big time – (show 21 more)
- face: a face that only a mother could love – ass face – (show 37 more)
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FAQ
- acronym for "frequently asked questions(s)". Used frequently in computing.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009.
noun
- A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to the internet. Also "FAQ list".