zap
1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3. vt. To make
someone `suffer' by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love
spicy food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes
you wipe your nose for the rest of the meal.) See zapped. 4. vt. To modify, usually to correct;
esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary
patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. "Zap the debug
level to 6 and run it again." In the IBM mainframe world, binary
patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program
called `superzap', whose file name is `IMASPZAP' (possibly
contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). 5. vt. To erase or reset. 6. To
fry a chip with static electricity. "Uh
oh -- I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk
controller."