frob /frob/ 1. n.
[MIT; very common] The TMRC
definition was "FROB = a protruding arm or trunnion"; by
metaphoric extension, a `frob' is any random small thing; an
object that you can comfortably hold in one hand; something you
can frob (sense 2). See frobnitz.
2. vt. Abbreviated form of frobnicate. 3. [from the MUD world] A command on some MUDs that changes a
player's experience level (this can be used to make wizards);
also, to request wizard privileges
on the `professional courtesy' grounds that one is a wizard
elsewhere. The command is actually `frobnicate' but is
universally abbreviated to the shorter form.