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  • slurp
    vt. To read a large data file entirely into {core} before working on it. This may be contrasted with the strategy of reading ... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    RTBM

    /R-T-B-M/ [UNIX] imp. Commonwealth Hackish variant of RTFM; expands to `Read The Bloody Manual'. RTBM is often the entire text of the first reply to a question from a newbie; the *second* would escalate to "RTFM".