gweep
/gweep/ [WPI] 1. v. To
hack, usually at night. At
WPI, from 1977 onwards, this often indicated that the speaker could
be found at the College Computing Center punching cards or crashing
the
PDP-10 or, later, the DEC-20; the term has survived the
demise of those technologies, however, and is still live in late
1991. "I'm going to go gweep for a while. See you in the
morning" "I gweep from 8pm till 3am during the week." 2. n. One
who habitually gweeps in sense 1; a
hacker. "He's a
hard-core gweep, mumbles code in his sleep."
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