ravs /ravz/, also `Chinese ravs' n.
[primarily MIT/Boston usage] Jiao-zi (steamed or boiled) or
Guo-tie (pan-fried). A Chinese appetizer, known variously in the
plural as dumplings, pot stickers (the literal translation of
guo-tie), and (around Boston) `Peking Ravioli'. The term `rav' is
short for `ravioli', and among hackers always means the Chinese
kind rather than the Italian kind. Both consist of a filling in a
pasta shell, but the Chinese kind includes no cheese, uses a
thinner pasta, has a pork-vegetable filling (good ones include
Chinese chives), and is cooked differently, either by steaming or
frying. A rav or dumpling can be cooked any way, but a potsticker
is always the pan-fried kind (so called because it sticks to the
frying pot and has to be scraped off). "Let's get hot-and-sour
soup and three orders of ravs." See also oriental food.
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raw mode n.
A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or
from an I/O device (or, under bogus
operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without
any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating
system. Compare rare mode,
cooked mode. This is
techspeak under Unix, jargon elsewhere.