flush v.
1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to
abort an operation. "All that nonsense has been flushed." 2.
[Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an
fflush(3) call. This is not an abort or
deletion as in sense 1, but a demand for early completion! 3. To
leave at the end of a day's work (as opposed to leaving for a
meal). "I'm going to flush now." "Time to flush." 4. To exclude
someone from an activity, or to ignore a person.
`Flush' was standard ITS terminology for aborting an output
operation; one spoke of the text that would have been printed,
but was not, as having been flushed. It is speculated that this
term arose from a vivid image of flushing unwanted characters by
hosing down the internal output buffer, washing the characters
away before they could be printed. The Unix/C usage, on the other
hand, was propagated by the fflush(3) call in C's
standard I/O library (though it is reported to have been in use
among BLISS programmers at DEC and on
Honeywell and IBM machines as far back as 1965). Unix/C hackers
found the ITS usage confusing, and vice versa.
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flypage /fli:'payj/ n.
(alt. `fly page') A banner, sense
1.
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Flyspeck 3 n.
Standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable
(by analogy with names like `Helvetica 10' for 10-point
Helvetica). Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck
3.