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silicon n.

Hardware, esp. ICs or microprocessor-based computer systems

(compare iron). Contrasted with

software. See also sandbender.

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silly walk vi.

[from Monty Python's Flying Circus] 1. A ridiculous procedure

required to accomplish a task. Like grovel, but more random and humorous. "I had to silly-walk

through half the /usr directories to find the maps file." 2. Syn.

fandango on core.

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