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  • Turing tar-pit
    n. 1. A place where anything is possible but nothing of interest is practical. Alan Turing helped lay the foundations of computer science... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


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    grovel

    vi. 1. To work interminably and without apparent progress. Often used transitively with `over' or `through'. "The file scavenger has been groveling through the file directories for 10 minutes now." Compare grind and crunch. Emphatic form `grovel obscenely'. 2. To examine minutely or in complete detail. "The compiler grovels over the entire source program before beginning to translate it." "I grovelled through all the documentation, but I still couldn't find the command I wanted."