swab /swob/
[From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as
immortalized in the dd(1) option
conv=swab (see dd)] 1. vt.
To solve the NUXI problem by
swapping bytes in a file. 2. n. The program in V7 Unix used to
perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it.
See also big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian, bytesexual.