boink /boynk/
[Usenet: variously ascribed to the TV series "Cheers"
"Moonlighting", and "Soap"] 1. v. To have sex with; compare bounce, sense 3. (This is mainstream
slang.) In Commonwealth hackish the variant `bonk' is more
common. 2. n. After the original Peter Korn `Boinkon' Usenet parties, used for almost any net social
gathering, e.g., Miniboink, a small boink held by Nancy Gillett
in 1988; Minniboink, a Boinkcon in Minnesota in 1989;
Humpdayboinks, Wednesday get-togethers held in the San Francisco
Bay Area. Compare @-party. 3. Var
of `bonk'; see bonk/oif.
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bomb
1. v. General synonym for crash
(sense 1) except that it is not used as a noun; esp. used of
software or OS failures. "Don't run Empire with less than 32K
stack, it'll bomb." 2. n.,v. Atari ST and Macintosh equivalents
of a Unix `panic' or Amiga guru
meditation, in which icons of little black-powder bombs
or mushroom clouds are displayed, indicating that the system has
died. On the Mac, this may be accompanied by a decimal (or
occasionally hexadecimal) number indicating what went wrong,
similar to the Amiga guru
meditation number. MS-DOS
machines tend to get locked up
in this situation.
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bondage-and-discipline language n.
A language (such as Pascal, Ada, APL, or Prolog) that, though ostensibly
general-purpose, is designed so as to enforce an author's theory
of `right programming' even though said theory is demonstrably
inadequate for systems hacking or even vanilla general-purpose
programming. Often abbreviated `B&D'; thus, one may speak of
things "having the B&D nature". See Pascal; oppose languages of choice.
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bonk/oif /bonk/, /oyf/ interj.
In the U.S. MUD community, it has
become traditional to express pique or censure by `bonking' the
offending person. Convention holds that one should acknowledge a
bonk by saying `oif!' and there is a myth to the effect that
failing to do so upsets the cosmic bonk/oif balance, causing much
trouble in the universe. Some MUDs have implemented special
commands for bonking and oifing. Note: in parts of the U.K.
`bonk' is a sexually loaded slang term; care is advised in
transatlantic conversations (see boink). Commonwealth hackers report a similar
convention involving the `fish/bang' balance. See also talk mode.