fry
1. vi. To fail. Said especially of smoke-producing hardware
failures. More generally, to become non-working. Usage: never
said of software, only of hardware and humans. See fried, magic
smoke. 2. vt. To cause to fail; to roach, toast, or
hose a piece of hardware. Never used
of software or humans, but compare fried.
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fscking /fus'-king/ or /eff'-seek-ing/ adj.
[Usenet; common] Fucking, in the expletive sense (it refers to
the Unix filesystem-repair command fsck(1), of which it can be
said that if you have to use it at all you are having a bad day).
Originated on scary devil
monastery and the _bofh.net_ newsgroups, but became
much more widespread following the passage of CDA. Also occasionally seen in the variant "What
the fsck?"
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FSF /F-S-F/ abbrev.
Common abbreviation (both spoken and written) for the name of
the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit educational association
formed to support the GNU project.
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