bamf /bamf/
1. [from X-Men comics; originally "bampf"] interj. Notional
sound made by a person or object teleporting in or out of the
hearer's vicinity. Often used in virtual reality (esp. MUD) electronic fora
when a character wishes to make a dramatic entrance or exit. 2.
The sound of magical transformation, used in virtual reality
fora like MUDs. 3. In MUD circles,
"bamf" is also used to refer to the act by which a MUD server
sends a special notification to the MUD client to switch its
connection to another server ("I'll set up the old site to just
bamf people over to our new location."). 4. Used by MUDders on
occasion in a more general sense related to sense 3, to refer to
directing someone to another location or resource ("A user was
asking about some technobabble so I bamfed them to http://www.tuxedo.org/jargon/".)