page out vi.
[MIT] 1. To become unaware of one's surroundings temporarily,
due to daydreaming or preoccupation. "Can you repeat that? I
paged out for a minute." See page
in. Compare glitch, thinko. 2. Syn. `swap out'; see swap.
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A flamer.
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[from Dr. Pangloss, the eternal optimist in Voltaire's
"Candide"] In corporate DP shops, a common condition of severe
but equally shared lossage
resulting from the theory that as long as everyone in the
organization has the exactly the same model of obsolete
computer, everything will be fine.