winkey n.
(alt. `winkey face') See emoticon.
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winnage /win'*j/ n.
The situation when a lossage is corrected, or when something
is winning.
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winner
1. n. An unexpectedly good situation, program, programmer, or
person. 2. `real winner': Often sarcastic, but also used as high
praise (see also the note under user).
"He's a real winner -- never reports a bug till he can duplicate
it and send in an example."
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winnitude /win'*-t[y]ood/ n.
The quality of winning (as opposed to winnage, which is the result of winning).
"Guess what? They tweaked the microcode and now the LISP
interpreter runs twice as fast as it used to." "That's really
great! Boy, what winnitude!" "Yup. I'll probably get a
half-hour's winnage on the next run of my program." Perhaps
curiously, the obvious antonym `lossitude' is rare.