garply /gar'plee/ n.
[Stanford] Another metasyntactic variable (see foo); once popular among SAIL hackers.
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gas
[as in `gas chamber'] 1. interj. A term of disgust and hatred,
implying that gas should be dispensed in generous quantities,
thereby exterminating the source of irritation. "Some loser just
reloaded the system for no reason! Gas!" 2. interj. A suggestion
that someone or something ought to be flushed out of mercy. "The
system's getting wedged every few
minutes. Gas!" 3. vt. To flush (sense
1). "You should gas that old crufty software." 4. [IBM] n. Dead
space in nonsequentially organized files that was occupied by
data that has since been deleted; the compression operation that
removes it is called `degassing' (by analogy, perhaps, with the
use of the same term in vacuum technology). 5. [IBM] n. Empty
space on a disk that has been clandestinely allocated against
future need.
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gaseous adj.
Deserving of being gassed.
Disseminated by Geoff Goodfellow while at SRI; became
particularly popular after the Moscone-Milk killings in San
Francisco, when it was learned that the defendant Dan White (a
politician who had supported Proposition 7) would get the gas
chamber under Proposition 7 if convicted of first-degree murder
(he was eventually convicted of manslaughter).
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