flytrap n.
[rare] See firewall
machine.
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FM /F-M/ n.
1. [common] Not `Frequency Modulation' but rather an
abbreviation for `Fucking Manual', the back-formation from RTFM. Used to refer to the manual itself in
the RTFM. "Have you seen the
Networking FM lately?" 2. Abbreviation for "Fucking Magic", used
in the sense of black
magic.
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fnord n.
[from the "Illuminatus Trilogy"] 1. A word used in email and
news postings to tag utterances as surrealist mind-play or humor,
esp. in connection with Discordianism and elaborate conspiracy
theories. "I heard that David Koresh is sharing an apartment in
Argentina with Hitler. (Fnord.)" "Where can I fnord get the
Principia Discordia from?" 2. A metasyntactic variable,
commonly used by hackers with ties to Discordianism or the Church of the
SubGenius.
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FOAF // n.
[Usenet; common] Acronym for `Friend Of A Friend'. The source
of an unverified, possibly untrue story. This term was not
originated by hackers (it is used in Jan Brunvand's books on
urban folklore), but is much better recognized on Usenet and
elsewhere than in mainstream English.