locals, the pl.n.
The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people
one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects). The marked
thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space
distance. "I have to do some tweaking on this mail utility before
releasing it to the locals."
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locked and loaded adj.,obs.
[from military slang for an M-16 rifle with magazine inserted
and prepared for firing] Said of a removable disk volume properly
prepared for use -- that is, locked into the drive and with the
heads loaded. Ironically, because their heads are `loaded'
whenever the power is up, this description is never used of Winchester drives (which are named
after a rifle).