glork /glork/
1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage,
as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing
and finds that the system has just crashed. 2. Used as a name for
just about anything. See foo. 3. vt.
Similar to glitch, but usually used
reflexively. "My program just glorked itself." 4. Syn. for glark, which see.
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glue n.
Generic term for any interface logic or protocol that connects
two component blocks. For example, Blue
Glue is IBM's SNA protocol, and hardware designers call
anything used to connect large VLSI's or circuit blocks `glue
logic'.
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gnarly /nar'lee/ adj.
Both obscure and hairy (sense 1). "Yow! -- the tuned assembler implementation of
BitBlt is really gnarly!" From a similar but less specific usage
in surfer slang.
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