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  • garply
    /gar'plee/ [Stanford] n. Another metasyntactic variable (see {foo}); once popular among SAIL hackers.


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    forked

    [UNIX; prob. influenced by a mainstream expletive] adj. Terminally slow, or dead. Originated when one system was slowed to a snail's pace by an inadvertent fork bomb.