• acronym for "in my humble opinion". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.) Contrast with IMAO.

  You'd be better off without her IMHO.

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  by David B., Aug 19 2008  (Edit definition)

• acronym for "in my, not so humble opinion". 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)

• acronym for "in my opinion". Used mainly in computer-based conversation (instant messaging, email, text messaging, etc.)

  Obama has better leadership skills IMO.

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  by David B., Aug 19 2008  (Edit definition)

noun

• If you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, given an infinite amount of time, eventually one will bash out the script for Hamlet.
  
  It may be referred to semi-seriously when justifying a brute force method; the implication is that, with enough resources thrown at it, any technical challenge becomes trivial.

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notes

• In mid-2002, researchers at Plymouth Univesity in England actually put a working computer in a cage with six crested macaques. The monkeys proceeded to bash the machine with a rock, urinate on it, and type the letter S a lot (later, the letters A, J, L, and M also crept in). The results were published in a limited-edition book, Notes Towards The Complete Works of Shakespeare. A researcher reported:
  
  "They were quite interested in the screen, and they saw that when they typed a letter, something happened. There was a level of intention there."

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origin

• This theorem has been traced to the mathematiciamn Émile Borel in 1913, and was first popularized by the astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington. It became part of the idiom of techies via the classic SF short story "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney, and many younger hackers know it through a reference in Douglas Adams's "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
  
  On 1 April 2000 the usage acquired its own Internet standard, RFC2795 - Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite.

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• acronym for "in other words". 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)

• In real life

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  by Tensore @., Feb 04 2005  (Edit definition)

noun

• a short amount of time.

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• phone number or digits.

  did you get his keys?

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  by liz, VA, USA, Nov 04 1999  (Edit definition)

noun

• Keep It Simple, Stupid. A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off feature creep and control development complexity.

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noun

• A clever programming trick intended to solve a particular nasty case in an expedient, if not clear, manner. Often used to repair bugs. Often involves ad-hockery.

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verb

• To insert a kluge into a program.

  I've kluged this routine to get around that weird bug, but there's probably a better way.

  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

origin

• Nowadays this term is often encountered in the variant spelling "kludge."
  
  In 1947, the New York Folklore Quarterly reported a classic shaggy-dog story "Murgatroyd the Kluge Maker" then current in the Armed Forces, in which a "kluge" was a complex and puzzling artifact with a trivial function. Other sources report that "kluge" was common Navy slang in the WWII era for any piece of electronics that worked well on shore but consistently failed at sea.

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• "ok, thanks."

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• Often used online, means "Okay, thanks, 'bye."

  did u print out my english paper? yeah? kthxbai.

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  by Alice M., Falls Church, VA, USA, Feb 04 2008  (Edit definition)

• "okay, thanks, bye." A slightly more verbose version is kthanksbye.

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  by WalterGR, Sacramento, CA, USA, Aug 11 2009  (Edit definition)

• "later". 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)

• "later gator". 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)

• An annoying fool; idiot. (Used extensively on IRC).

  He is such a lamer.

  by Steve C., Australia, Mar 03 1999  (Edit definition)

• A geek or social loser. Also used as Lame-ass. Origin: Hackerspeak.

  He is such a lamer.

  by Allen G., Dec 18 2000  (Edit definition)

noun

• a person unskilled in computer use. Contract with elite.

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  by The Jargon File, Aug 14 2009  (Edit definition)

origin

• This term seems to have originated in the Commodore-64 scene in the mid 1980s. It was popularized among Amiga crackers of the mid-1980s by "Lamer Exterminator", the most famous and feared Amiga virus ever, which gradually corrupted non-write-protected floppy disks with bad sectors. The bad sectors, when looked at, were overwritten with repetitions of the string "LAMER!".

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noun

• a person who downloads without uploading in return.

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• a person who consumes without giving anything in return.

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verb

• to download without uploading in return.

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• to consume without giving anything in return.

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noun

• The natural decay of web links as the sites they're connected to change or die. Compare bit rot.

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