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    /fod/ v. [Abbreviation for `Finger of Death', originally a spell-name from fantasy gaming] To terminate with extreme prejudice and with no regard for other... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    backbone cabal

    n. A group of large-site administrators who pushed through the Great Renaming and reined in the chaos of USENET during most of the 1980s. The cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 after a bitter internal catfight, but the net hardly noticed.