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  • NAK
    /nak/ [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] interj. 1. On-line joke answer to {ACK}? "I'm not here." 2. On-line answer to a request for... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    Suzie COBOL

    /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM prob. from Frank Zappa's `Suzy Creamcheese'] n. A coder straight out of training school who knows everything except the value of comments in plain English. Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid accusations of sexism) `Sammy Cobol' or (in some non-IBM circles) `Cobol Charlie'. 2. [proposed] Meta-name for any code grinder, analogous to J. Random Hacker.