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- movie, film, video
- See also recreation, fun, and humor
- See also TV, television
- radio, stereo
- remote control
- telephone, phone
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- See also to make a copy, pirate, bootleg
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eye candy
noun
- an attractive person.
That guy was complete eye candy.
More words meaning: attractive person (either gender)
by Gin, Canada, May 18 2002 (Edit definition)
- an attractive but unintelligent person.
Sarah is eye candy.
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by Rafaela M., San Diego, CA, USA, May 12 2003 (Edit definition)
- an attractive but otherwise unimportant person.
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- 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.)
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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FAQ
- acronym for "frequently asked questions(s)". Used frequently in computing.
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
noun
- A compendium of accumulated lore, posted periodically to the internet. Also "FAQ list".
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fat-finger 
transitive verb
- To accidentally press an adjacent button, e.g. while typing on a keyboard or entering a phone number. Happens more frequently as the button size is reduced, e.g. on cell phones.
Whoops, I just fat-fingered his phone number.
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More words meaning: to make a mistake, be incorrect, err
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- fat: chew the fat – crack a fat – (show 12 more)
- finger: cross (one's) fingers – finger – (show 14 more)
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feature creep
noun
- The condition where more and more features get added to a system that it becomes difficult to use, requires more computer resources, etc.
Emacs has a bad case of feature creep
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- creep: creep – creepin – (show 2 more)
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fencepost error
noun
- A problem with the discrete equivalent of a boundary condition, often exhibited in programs by iterative loops. From the following problem:
"If you build a fence 100 feet long with posts 10 feet apart, how many posts do you need?"
10 is an incorrect answer.More words meaning: computer slang
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FFS
- acronym for "for fuck's sake."
FFS, man, not everything revolves around you!
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by Francine Flisher, Ipswich, Suffolk, UK, Mar 06 2009 (Edit definition)
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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- ff: FF
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firefight
noun
- "Putting out fires" (last-minute disasters) instead of performing one's official job.
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flame
noun
- an instance of "flaming."
After I wrote on the message board that Hondas are the best cars, a bunch of people sent me flames.
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More words meaning: to insult, complain, criticize - one's romantic partner. Typically used in the expression "old flame".
More words meaning: boyfriend, girlfriend, boo, significant other
by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Sep 09 2009 (Edit definition)
verb
- to complain.
He won't stop flaming about getting fired.
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More words meaning: to insult, complain, criticizeby Setebos, Berkeley, CA, USA, Apr 21 1998 (Edit definition)
- to post a message to an internet forum intended to insult and provoke.
When I wrote on the message board that Hondas are the best cars, I got flamed by a bunch of people.
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More words meaning: to insult, complain, criticize
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- flame: flame bait – flame-broiled – (show 1 more)
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flame bait
noun
- A posting intended to trigger a flame war, or one that invites flames in reply. See also troll.
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- flame: flame – flame-broiled – (show 1 more)
- bait: bait – bait (one) out – (show 9 more)
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flame war
noun
- An acrimonious dispute, especially when conducted on a public electronic forum.
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- war: be World War 3 – have a tug of war with cyclops
- flame: flame – flame bait – (show 1 more)
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flick
noun
- a movie.
That was a good flick.
Person A: What did you do on your date last night?
Person B: We had some dinner and caught a flick.More words meaning: movie, film, video
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- flick: chick flick – dick flick – (show 5 more)
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FML
- acronym for "fuck my life."
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by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009 (Edit definition)
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FOAD
verb
- acronym for "fuck off and die". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)
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FOAF
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.
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More words meaning: friend, friends
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footprint
noun
- The minimum amount of some computer resource that a computer program occupies.
- The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
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for free
adjective
- Said of a capability of a programming language or hardware that is available by its design without needing cleverness to implement.
In APL, we get the matrix operations for free.
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- free: footloose and fancy-free – free ball – (show 5 more)
- for: along for the ride – bat for the other team – (show 60 more)
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four-color glossies
noun
- Literature created by marketroids that allegedly contains technical specs but which is in fact as superficial as possible without being totally content-free. Often applied as an indication of superficiality even when the material is printed on ordinary paper in black and white.
Forget the four-color glossies, give me the tech reference manuals.
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- Applied by extension to manual pages that don't contain enough information to diagnose why the program doesn't produce the expected or desired output.
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- color: color me – colors – (show 4 more)
- four: cooking on all four burners – four corners – (show 5 more)
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frag
verb
- to kill or seriously damage someone/something, though can be used playfully. Developed from videogames like Quake where your number of frags is your number of kills, but i've heard used in wider contexts.
I'm gonna frag your ass.
- To completely ruin something.
Forget that power supply, the lightning strike fragged it.
More words meaning: computer slang
origin
- from Vietnam-era U.S. military slang via the games Doom and Quake.
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freeware
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.
More words meaning: software
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.
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