cuspy /kuhs'pee/ adj.
[WPI: from the DEC abbreviation
CUSP, for `Commonly Used System Program', i.e., a utility program
used by many people] 1. (of a program) Well-written. 2.
Functionally excellent. A program that performs well and
interfaces well to users is cuspy. See rude. 3. [NYU] Said of an attractive woman,
especially one regarded as available. Implies a certain
curvaceousness.
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cut a tape vi.
To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape
for shipment. Has nothing to do with physically cutting the
medium! Early versions of this lexicon claimed that one never
analogously speaks of `cutting a disk', but this has since been
reported as live usage. Related slang usages are mainstream
business's `cut a check', the recording industry's `cut a
record', and the military's `cut an order'.
All of these usages reflect physical processes in obsolete
recording and duplication technologies. The first stage in
manufacturing an old-style vinyl record involved cutting grooves
in a stamping die with a precision lathe. More mundanely, the
dominant technology for mass duplication of paper documents in
pre-photocopying days involved "cutting a stencil", punching away
portions of the wax overlay on a silk screen. More directly,
paper tape with holes punched in it was an important early
storage medium.