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  • hose
    1. vt. To make non-functional or greatly degraded in performance. "That big ray-tracing program really hoses the system." See {hosed}. 2.... VIEW ENTIRE DEFINITION


    •  View Definition: jump off into never-never land 

    jump off into never-never land

    [from J. M. Barrie's `Peter Pan'] v. Same as branch to Fishkill, but more common in technical cultures associated with non-IBM computers that use the term `jump' rather than `branch'. Compare hyperspace.