gweep /gweep/
[WPI] 1. v. To hack, usually at
night. At WPI, from 1975 onwards, one who gweeped could often be
found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing
the PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20. A
correspondent who was there at the time opines that the term was
originally onomatopoetic, describing the keyclick sound of the
Datapoint terminals long connected to the PDP-10. The term has
survived the demise of those technologies, however, and was still
alive in early 1999. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you
in the morning." "I gweep from 8 PM till 3 AM during the week."
2. n. One who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a hacker. "He's a hard-core gweep, mumbles code
in his sleep."